11-20. Read the following passage from Thomas Paine's The Crisis (1776) carefully before you choose your answers. Which of the following anecdotes does Paine use in the selection?
Select one:
O a. General Gage's attack on Quebec
O b. The innkeeper who reads Pilgrim's Progress
O c. The Tory tavern keeper who makes a thoughtless statement in front of a child
O d. Washington's crossing of the Delaware River

c. The Tory tavern keeper who makes a thoughtless statement in front of a child.

Explanation:

Thomas Paine wrote The Crisis during the American Civil War in order to inspire the colonists in their struggle against the British.

In this selection, Thomas Paine uses the anecdote of a Tory tavern keeper who said that he would rather have peace whilst he is alive as opposed to fighting the British.

Thomas Paine thought this statement thoughtless because he believed that a parent such as the tavern keeper, should hope for problems to happen in his time rather than in the time of his children.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

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