MCQ: Unit 2 Progress Check

D. almost religious devotion people have to collecting "likes" on social media
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Reasoning: The speaker describes "Like" as a "semi-demi goddess" primarily to emphasize how focused people are on collecting "likes" on social media. Throughout the poem, there are multiple references to how social media encourages people to "like" a variety of products and causes.

A. how crucial the word "like" is to people's ability to communicate with each other
-------------------------------------------------Reasoning: The simile emphasizes how people are so dependent on the word "like" in conversation that they cannot communicate without it.

C. threatens to eliminate more sophisticated language
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Reasoning: The metaphor of "endangered hatchlings" suggests that the word "like" has taken the place of more important words and thus puts them in peril of elimination, as an "endangered hatchling" would be in danger of extinction.

E. suggest that the speaker's vocabulary is limited
-------------------------------------------------Reasoning: The repetition of versions of the word "like" at the end of each line does not suggest the speaker's vocabulary is limited. The vocabulary in lines like 21 and 34 indicates the opposite. The speaker is mocking the overuse of the word "like."

D. "hunters" (line 5)
-------------------------------------------------Reasoning: "Them" in "I have come after them" refers to the "hunters," whose "work" is the intentional dislodging of stones described in lines 7-9.

E. The speaker treats the neighbor's words about fences as evidence of a world view that is closed-minded in general.
-------------------------------------------------Reasoning: The speaker treats the neighbor's words about fences as evidence of a world view that is closed-minded in general.

D. speculation about the nature of fences and boundaries
-------------------------------------------------Reasoning: In this line, the speaker shifts from a practical description of mending the fences to speculation about the nature of fences and boundaries in a metaphorical sense.

C. two distinct perspectives of the world
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Reasoning: The speaker uses charged language such as an "old-stone savage" and "moves in darkness" to underscore his point that the neighbor, unlike himself, insists upon a narrow view of the world and so "will not go behind his father's saying" to examine or question its validity.

C. unfulfilled impulse to share his personal reflections with the neighbor
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Reasoning: The speaker returns to the opening line of the poem in his imagined comment to his neighbor, but although this comment develops the idea in the opening line, it is never actually said aloud.

D. "He moves in darkness" (line 41)
-------------------------------------------------Reasoning: The neighbor's handling of the stone reminds the speaker of an "old-stone savage armed" who "moves in darkness," which illustrates his disapproval of the neighbor's attitudes.

C. judgmental attitude and his questionable clothes and grooming
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Reasoning: Details provided by the narrator about Ignatius' "fleshy balloon of a head," his "large ears and uncut hair," and the corners of lips "filled with . . . potato chip crumbs" highlight the sense that Ignatius is not as superior to others as he believes himself to be.

E. distasteful physical appearance
-------------------------------------------------Reasoning: Details such as Ignatius' "fleshy balloon of a head," his "uncut hair," and the corners of his lips "filled with . . . potato chip crumbs" highlight Ignatius' more repulsive physical qualities.

B. mockery
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Reasoning: The image of "turn signals indicating two directions at once" implicitly makes fun of Ignatius' appearance; the narrator's word choices throughout the passage implicitly and explicitly make fun of Ignatius' appearance and his reasoning.

C. the unconventional nature of Ignatius' priorities and values
-------------------------------------------------Reasoning: Ignatius' ideas about "bad taste" have more to do with comfort than with conventional ideas about what constitutes "taste."

B. His pretentious use of abstract concepts to justify his own preferences
-------------------------------------------------Reasoning: Ignatius somewhat nonsensically appeals to lofty principles of "theology and geometry" to justify his personal distaste for new or expensive things.

A. self-centered focus on his own needs
-------------------------------------------------Reasoning: Ignatius' focus is on his own discomfort and on how he might best make his mother feel guilty about that discomfort.

A. While Ignatius' own thoughts and opinions indicate that he is an unusual person, the narrator's description extends his unconventionality to being peculiar.
-------------------------------------------------Reasoning: Even from his own perspective, Ignatius' thoughts and opinions are unusual and make him an unusual person. In presenting those thoughts and opinions, the narrator supplies unflattering details related to Ignatius' appearance and behavior that undercut Ignatius' perspective and portray him as odd to the point of being ridiculous.

A. present Ignatius' thought processes as they occur
-------------------------------------------------Reasoning: The passage presents details about what Ignatius is thinking from moment to moment.