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(D) Nature is superior to civilization.
(E) All things great and small have their
purpose.
32. The poem is best characterized as
(A) a fable
(B) an elegy
(C) an epic
(D) a sonnet
(E) a ballad
33. In the context of the poem, “Little Prig”
must be
(A) a nonsense phrase
(B) a compliment
(C) an insult
(D) a literary allusion
(E) a paradoxical phrase
34. In lines 15 and 16, the squirrel implies that
the mountain
(A) is not nearly so large as it thinks it is
(B) only exists in the mind of the squirrel
(C) is more attractive than other geographi-
cal features in the area
(D) should provide more forestation for
animals
(E) exists primarily as a place where squir-
rels can run
(5)
(10)
(15)

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35. The poet elaborates the squirrel’s viewpoint
rather than the mountain’s because
(A) the squirrel is more intelligent and clever
than the mountain
(B) philosophical ideas are generally associ-
ated with animals rather than objects
(C) the argument was initiated by the moun-
tain and not the squirrel
(D) it is often presumed that what is larger is
more important than what is smaller
(E) the mountain fails to understand the dis-
tinctions drawn by the squirrel
36. Which of the following words, when substi-
tuted for “weather” (line 6), would best pre-
serve the meaning of the poem?
(A) Events
(B) Storms
(C) People