Question 3 of IU
2 Points
Which sentence from Defoe's Robinson Crusoe best illustrates the concepts
found in the Great Chain of Being?
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A. I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet, in time, by labour,
application, and contrivance, I found, at last, that I wanted nothing
but I could have made it, especially if I had had tools (60).
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B. [If any people were to come on shore there they would not
perceive any thing like a habitation, and it was very well I did so, as
may be observed hereafter, upon a very remarkable occasion (68).
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C. [N]ay, I was coming into the very middle station, or upper degree of
low life, which my father advised me to before, and which, if Ich
resolved to go on with, I might as well have stayed at home, and
never have fatigued myself in the world, as I had done (31).
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D. [M]y boy Xury, which I was loth to take; not that I was not willing to
let the captain have him, but I was very loth to sell the poor boy's
liberty, who had assisted me so faithfully in procuring my own
(28)
