Please read the excerpt above and answer the following...

Please read the excerpt above and answer the following questions:

I. Read the excerpt from the speech on pages 1 to 5 of your Readings Booklet and answer questions 1 to 12.

 1. The principle device that the author uses to introduce the essay (lines 1 to 7) is

 A. a question 

B. an anecdote

 C. a quotation 

D. an explanation 

2. The quotation in line 26, " 'My wife reads novels. I haven't got the time,' " is most closely related to the author's argument in

 A. "For pleasure is not a value, to the Puritan; on the contrary, it is a sin" (line 40) 

B. "To the strangely mystical mind of the money-changer, this justifies its existence; and by reading it he may participate, a little, in the power and mana of its success" (lines 46-48) 

C. "The American boy and man is very commonly forced to define his maleness by rejecting certain traits, certain human gifts and potentialities, which our culture defines as 'womanish' or 'childish' " (lines 51-53)

 D. "Children's imaginative play is clearly a practicing at the acts and emotions of adulthood; a child who did not play would not become mature" (lines 67-69) 

3. In the context of lines 29 to 3 1, the phrase "perfect self-assurance" most strongly indicates an attitude of

 A. righteousness

 B. persuasiveness

 C. submission 

D. hostility 

 4 . According to Le Guin, in the "Puritan value system" (line 39), literature is judged according to its 

A. insightful ideas 

B. social relevance 

C. imaginative truth

 D. practical application 

5. In the phrase "the strangely mystical mind of the money-changer" (line 46), the use of "mystical" is ironic in that 

A. the psychology of success is a mystery 

B. successful business practice is not accidental 

C. the businessman's approach to life is material 

D. it is impossible for anyone to predict a bestseller

 6. By juxtaposing ''War and Peace' and "the theory of relativity" (lines 69 and 70) Le Guin emphasizes that 

A. adult minds engage in superior thinking 

B. imagination is a universal source of creativity

 C. art and science are separated by an unbridgeable gap

 D. rational thinking is a source of major accomplishments 

7. The speaker believes that the purpose of disciplining the imagination (lines 71 to 74) is to 

A. reduce material gain 

B. eradicate daydreaming 

C. give direction to creativity 

D. offer alternatives to creative thinking

 8. Le Guin argues that a repressed imagination (lines 78 to 96) will 

A. hinder the growth of other intellectual faculties 

B. nurture the development of a healthy moral sense 

C. wither and die, destroying the capacity for creative thought 

D. force itself to the surface in chaotic and distorted forms 

9. " 'I haven't got the time,' he snaps, swallowing a Maalox pill for his ulcer and rushing off to the golf course" (lines 120 to 121) serves as one of several examples of 

A. social satire

 B. scientific theorizing 

C. ironic understatement 10. 

D. artistic discrimination 

10. Which of the following statements offers the best interpretation of "Le Guin's Law" (line 135)? 

A. A rejection of fantasy guarantees material success. 

B. Fantasy is the preferred realm of the young and innocent.

 C. The appeal of fantasy depends exclusively on one's social and financial status. 

D. The pursuit of wealth and the appreciation of fantasy are fundamentally incompatible. 

11. According to the author, Americans fear fantasy mainly because fantasy 

A. threatens deeply rooted cultural characteristics and values 

B. emphasizes the important differences between males and females 

C. wastes time and energy that would be better spent on other pursuits 

D. encourages an unrestrained and undisciplined use of the imagination 

12. The author most clearly justifies her "personal defense of the uses of the imagination" (line 141) in the lines

 A. "For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true" (line 155)

 B. "They are afraid of dragons, because they are afraid of freedom" (line 159)

 C. "Normal children do not confuse reality and fantasy—they confuse them much less often than we adults do" (lines 160-161) 

D. "it is by such beautiful non-facts that we fantastic human beings may arrive, in our peculiar fashion, at the truth" (lines 171-173)