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"If" by Rudyard Kipling

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  • 1. Multiple Choice
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    PART A: Which of the following best summarizes a central theme of the text?

    Friendship is an important support system to young adults.

    Identity must come from within a person, not from what others tell you to be.

    Growing up is complicated and challenging, but is ultimately worth it for what can be accomplished.

    People, especially young people, should resist the social pressure to obey other people's rules.

  • 2. Multiple Choice
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    PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?

    “If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, / If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, / But make allowance for their doubting too;” ( Lines 1-4)

    “If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew / To serve your turn long after they are gone, / And so hold on when there is nothing in you / Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’” ( Lines 21-24)

    .“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, / If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, / If all men count with you, but none too much;” ( Lines 25-28)

    “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, / And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!” ( Lines 31-32)

  • 3. Multiple Choice
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    PART A: Which of the following best describes the structural pattern of the poem?

    It is organized through the repetition of “if... then” statements.

    It is organized with increasingly longer statements and increasingly difficult guidelines.

    It is organized into four stanzas, each with eight lines of iambic pentameter (5 feet per line/meter).

    It is organized mainly through the repetition of “if” statements, building upon each other until the final assertion of the poem.

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