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What is one of the pleasures that the new way of reading denies?
What is one of the pleasures that the new way of reading denies?
- Respect for imagination, beauty, and art
- Surrendering to the world of a book (correct)
- Teaching students to value literary masterpieces
- Expressing the human spirit in words
What does the new way of reading do in relation to reality and fiction?
What does the new way of reading do in relation to reality and fiction?
- It discourages the exploration of reality and fiction
- It eliminates fiction from reading entirely
- It blurs the line between reality and fiction (correct)
- It emphasizes the distinction between reality and fiction
What does teaching students to value literary masterpieces offer as hope?
What does teaching students to value literary masterpieces offer as hope?
- Awakening them to the infinite capacities and complexities of human experience (correct)
- Disregarding the importance of literary masterpieces
- Preventing them from appreciating the language
- Encouraging them to avoid complexity and ambiguity
What is literature's worth, according to the text?
What is literature's worth, according to the text?
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What does the text convey about the human spirit?
What does the text convey about the human spirit?
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What is literature's role in relation to human experience, based on the text?
What is literature's role in relation to human experience, based on the text?
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