#passage questions with answers

[englishbyruchi]

Passage practice with 10 MCQs - 3 & 4

Passage 3 (The Report) Lee sat among the books at the library and thought about his group project. They had to turn it in soon, but he hadn’t even started his part! Jack and Claire were in his group. They had worked hard. They were also very smart, and Lee didn’t want them to get a bad grade. Jack did the report. He wrote a lot of very good sentences and described things with great adjectives.…

[platoapproved]

As the resident TVC expert, do the books ever address the fact that Armand has a substance abuse problem? I knew he had a familial history of alcoholism through his father but I’m reading TVA for the first time and I feel like I should have been keeping track of how many times he’s mentioned being intoxicated while in Venice. I’ve seen parts of the battle-ax sequence out of context but I never realized until now that Armand explicitly states that he’s also drunk while all THAT™️ is happening

😭 I am so flattered and happy to answer as well as I can, but I promise I really am NOT an expert. I've still only read up through TVA! 💚 I can't tell you if the question of Armand and substance abuse ever comes up in later books, though my suspicion is it won't.

(Also good luck on your reading of TVA! It's... a lot!)

It really is interesting to me that a lot of discussion especially around Daniel/Armand talks about Daniel's addiction but (and it's probably just because people are going based solely on the show which is so fair!!!) doesn't mention Amadeo getting drunk all the time in Venice. That includes the breaking-down-Marius'-door-with-an-axe scene and everything that follows. But the one that really kills me, and to me makes it clearest that Amadeo is turning to alcohol as a coping mechanism, comes earlier:

He was particularly horrified that I'd fallen drunk into the Grand Canal, necessitating a clumsy and hysterical rescue. I could have sworn he went pale at the account, that I saw the color dance back from his whitening cheeks. He whipped Riccardo for it. I was full of shame. Riccardo took it like a soldier without cries or comment, standing still at a large fireplace in the library, his back turned to receive the blows on his legs. Afterwards, he knelt and kissed the Master's ring. I vowed I'd never get drunk again. I got drunk the next day, but I had the sense to stagger into Bianca's house and climb under her bed, where I could fall asleep without risk. Before midnight the Master pulled me out. I thought, Now I'll get it. But he only put me to bed, where I fell asleep before I could apologize.

It's just got so many layers of awfulness - Amadeo falling in the canal comes up a bunch as a fun shenanigan in fic/discussion, which I love, but I also can never forget what follows after it. Marius whipping Riccardo rather than Amadeo but making him watch. Amadeo promising himself he won't get drunk again but then getting drunk again the next day. :/ Running to Bianca's house and hiding under her bed because it is 'without risk' in a way that the palazzo isn't. :\

TVA doesn't ever address it explicitly but I think it's pretty easy and justified to read Amadeo as having a very unhealthy relationship with alcohol, even without taking into account a family history of addiction with his father.

I feel like I've read a handful of devil's minion fics where there are explicit parallels drawn between Amadeo's addiction to Marius' blood and Daniel's addiction to Armand's blood, but I would LOVE to read a fic where like... Daniel and Armand talk about the fact that as an abused teen he was getting drunk every day in a way that was clearly not just 'people drank a lot of wine back in the 16th century'. If anyone has any recs like that I'd love to read them!

[lucky-clover-gazette]

breath of the wild: here's this extremely minor npc who link finds at the broken heart pond, who explains that he'd been looking for the sweetheart pond and got lost. in the dialogue he quickly moves on from bemoaning his own error to hyping up link, encouraging him to find his own people and keep his chin up. he mentions his mother telling him similar supportive things throughout his entire life.

tears of the kingdom: this npc is now trying to join the yiga clan because he thinks learning martial arts and magic will make him seem cooler and get friends/girls. he eventually gives up and link finds him at a stable. once again, he quickly moves on from self-pity, declares himself cool no matter what, and starts to come up with ways that both he and link can find happiness and community. he mentions his mother in the same way again.

me in a prequel to both of those happenings, taking that small amount of characterization way too seriously:

[son-of-avraham]

One of the ways in which people have tried to make sense of the world's suffering in every generation has been by assuming that we deserve what we get, that somehow our misfortunes come as punishment for our sins...

...

The idea that God gives people what they deserve, that our misdeeds cause our misfortune, is a neat and attractive solution to the problem of evil at several levels, but it has a number of serious limitations. As we have seen, it teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt even where there is no basis for guilt. It makes them hate God, even as it makes them hate themselves. And most disturbingly enough, it does not even fit the facts.

-Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People, p. 12 & 14, 1981.

[lulu2992]

I was wondering something and I’d like to know your opinion (or the actual answer if it exists somewhere).

So, Pagan’s father, whose name is Gang Min in the Far Cry 6 Control DLC, appeared in Far Cry: Rite of Passage #2 several months before we saw him in the game, and in Control, he looked the same as he did in the comics:

But do you think he was designed by the Far Cry 6 Season Pass devs who then gave reference pictures to Geraldo Borges and Michael Atiyeh (Rite of Passage’s illustrator and colorist, respectively), or do you think the artists who worked on the comics designed him first and the DLC’s dev team then based the character’s 3D model on how he looked in the comics?

[fratercrucis]

they silenced me for speaking the truth

[amischiefofmuses]

Cuddle anon back again - thank you for your sincere answers before! I was wondering…When you’re cuddling, do you like to play with your partner’s hair? Or have your hair played with?

I’m admittedly most curious about Kurt - you’re just so cute! And your hair looks very soft.

Ask Random Muse Questions || Always Accepting

Kurt chuckles, the compliment earning a slightly lopsided bashful smile. Certainly he's been regarded as cute before, it's not the first time but it's infrequent enough that it's still warming, especially in the face of others who regard him as something closer to demonic. -- ❝Ah- Zhank you, I have had many say my fur and hair is very soft, so I zhink I can firmly confirm zhat to be true.❞ He nods decidedly, his tail waving calmly behind him. Some have described his fur like crushed velvet yet softer, only slightly bristly when one brushes against the grain - not that he encourages that kind of thing. -- ❝I certainly enjoy such attention, even platonically -❞ The man is much like a cat, relishing in such attention, even the briefest of headpats from someone fond of him. He has no shame about such things. ❝But vhen vith a partner I must admit I am quite needy in zhat regard. Having hands brush over my fur, stroking through my hair, it is relaxing and intimate in a vay I cannot quite put into words.❞ There's been a handful of times that need for attention has resulted in him simply flopping onto the lap of a partner, perhaps playful little head bonks should he be in such a mood. -- ❝And I enjoy playing vith zheir hair in return if they enjoy it, though I cannot say it is something I think about or need vith a partner. Zhat is for zheir comfort and I am happy to provide it.❞

-- ❝WOW- can you believe the audacity to ask a hair..-❞ Wade trails off, glaring at Morph.

-- ❝I don't mind my hair being played with, if I'm the right shape. And I love toying with my partners hair.❞ -- ❝What the fuck-? Where's the solidarity here?! JUDAS!❞ Wade's pouting beneath the mask, glaring at Morph for a solid few moments before his arms fold across his chest with a childish harrumph. ❝I don't really think about it, having hair to GRAB though? All about that.❞

[driftingballoons]

Mom: “God why do you give up so easily you can’t expect to be perfect immediately”

well you see mother when I’m not perfect immediately you burst into flames and bite my head off

[newtness532]

"εργαστήρια" that are just theory disguised as εργαστήριο should die actually

[cal-1maf]

When I die put chocolate coins over my eyes so I can pay Wonka to ferry me down the cocoa river

[ffcrazy15]

Well the problem might be that you're reading fucking Ulysses.

my adhd problems 💔

[patchoulioils]

cant wait to start TA’ing writing 101 and reading all the terrible chatgpt written essays!!! yayyyy!!!!!!!

[scar1ett-so1dier]

POV: You’re yapping about the Irish and your history assignments literally makes zero sense

[another-atom]

i never feel as autistic as i do whenever i am taking standardized tests. i feel the neurodiversity in my veins

[bismuth-209]

personally i found out that john green, brother of hank green, from the science videos on youtube, who was also in some youtube videos, but less, was the same john green who wrote an abundance of katherines, from the fragment in my english coursebook, multiple times

like i realized this, was shocked, and then forgot, and then realized again.

i think it was 2-4 times across no more than 2 years

Wait so you mean to tell me the whole time I was just like okay some supposedly famous guy named John Green runs a coffee blog, famous due to not the coffee, but he has cool post so I’ll follow him. Now I find out shocking information, that you’re the John Green that makes crash course videos?

My life is a lie and I have worse perception skills than that of a blind deaf weasel

It's weird for me, too.

[rusted-phone-calls]

huh