(6) The thing that makes Franklin's Autobiography different from every other life story of a great and successful person is just this human aspect of the account. (5) While we are fascinated by the story, we absorb the human experience through which a strong and helpful character is building. (4) In Franklin's Autobiography is offered not so much a ready-made formula for success, as the companionship of a real flesh and blood man of extraordinary mind and quality, whose daily walk and conversation will help us to meet our own difficulties, much as does the example of a wise and strong friend. (3) While we are searching far and near for some Aladdin's Lamp to answer the Sphinx’s riddle of fortune, there is ready at hand the interesting and vividly told story of one of the wisest and most useful lives in our own history, and perhaps in any history. (2) Most of the life stories of famous and successful men fail to inspire because they lack the human element that makes the record real and brings the story within our grasp. (1) We Americans devour eagerly any piece of writing that purports to tell us the secret of success in life yet how often we are disappointed to find nothing but commonplace statements, or maxims that we know by heart but never follow. Use the following passage to answer questions 33 - 35. He got his wish and died one day after the comet's next approach to earth, on April 21, 1910. Halley's Comet heralded Twain's birth, and he wanted to live long enough to see it again. He also lost a number of close friends and experienced numerous financial problems. Three of his four children preceded him in death his son did not live past infancy. Throughout his life, Twain was plagued by personal tragedies. He would go on to write such classics as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It was in writing that he found his life's true calling, and he soon became a popular author. When none of these ventures succeeded, Twain took a job as a journalist. When he tired of the printing industry, he became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi and then tried gold mining with his brother Orion. Twain first worked as a printer he was apprenticed at the age of 12. These early experiences greatly impacted young Twain and forever shaped his outlook on the world. His father also died when he was only 11. Only three of his six siblings lived to adulthood. Twain was born on Novemin Florida, Missouri. The majority of people know him only be his pen name, Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens is still one of America's most beloved authors, more than a century after his death. Use the information presented in the following passage to answer questions 23-28. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage? In the main, the authors of Iceland are unknown. In 1264, Iceland passed under the rule of Norway, and a decline of literature began, extending until 1400, the end of literary production in Iceland. The next century saw these stories take written form, and the period from 1220 to 1260 was the golden age of this literature. The year 1000 brought Christianity to the island, and the period from 1030 to 1120 were years of peace in which stories of the former time passed from mouth to mouth. These quarrels were the origin of the Icelandic family sagas. were devoted to taking up the land, and the hundred years that ensued after that date were devoted to quarreling about that land. It was in the last four decades of the ninth century of our era that Norsemen began to leave their own country and set up new homes in Iceland. Use the following passage to answer questions 4 through 7.
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