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QUESTIONS 15–17 ARE BASED ON THE
is frequently asked but impos-
FOLLOWING PASSAGE:
sible to answer.
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When Ralph Waldo Emerson pro-
(B)
A question asked frequently is
nounced America’s declaration of
whether the universe is bound,
cultural independence from Europe in
and it is impossible to answer.
his “American Scholar” address, he was
(C)
As to whether the universe is
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actually articulating the transcenden-
bound is frequently asked but
tal assumptions of Jefferson’s political
impossibly answered question.
independence. In the ideal new world
(D) Whether the universe is bound
envisioned by Emerson, America’s
becoming a perfect democracy of free
sible answered.
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and self-reliant individuals was within
(E)
Whether or not the universe is
reach. Bringing Emerson’s metaphysics
bound is a question asked
down to earth, Henry David Thoreau’s
frequently but a question
Walden (1854) asserted that one can
impossible to answer.