Question

From Excerpt from Walden "Where I lived and what I lived for". PART B: Which TWO of the following quotes best support the answer to Part A?
A
"Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" ( Paragraph 2)
B
"Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour" ( Paragraph 2)
C
"Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry." ( Paragraph 3)
D
"Hardly a man takes a half-hour’s nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, ‘What’s the news?’" ( Paragraph 3)
E
"For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it." ( Paragraph 4)
F
"Men esteem truth remote, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest star, before Adam and after the last man." ( Paragraph 6

Answer 1

A. "Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" ( Paragraph 2)

C. "Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry." ( Paragraph 3)

Explanation:

• Where I lived and What I lived for by Henry David Thoreau conveys (his reflection upon his 2 years that he spent living in the wilderness near Walden Pond, Massachusetts). that  man must make the most of each moment in life and take time to appreciate the nature's simplicity.

• The PART A of the above question as mentioned was:
• .PART A:  Which of the following best describes a central idea of the text?
• The answer was "C.Life should be lived without complication or hurry, in order to get to the core of living." Based on this option, option A and C have been selected for part B