Multiple choice

Dwelling

Directions: Some words in the verse below have been highlighted. Select the best meaning for the corresponding word.

Freedom from fear is the freedom
I claim for you my motherland!
Freedom from the burden of the ages, bending your head,
breaking your back, blinding your eyes to the beckoning
call of the future;
Freedom from the shackles of slumber wherewith
you fasten yourself in night's stillness,
mistrusting the star that speaks of truth's adventurous paths;
Freedom from the anarchy of destiny
whose sails are weakly yielded to the blind uncertain winds,
and the helm to a hand ever rigid and cold as death.
Freedom from the insult of dwelling in a puppet's world,
where movements are started through brainless wires,
repeated through mindless habits,
where figures wait with patience and obedience for the
master of show,
to be stirred into a mimicry of life.

  1. Address

  2. Palace

  3. Living

  4. Thinking
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C Correct answer
Explanation

'Dwelling' means living or inhabiting a place. The speaker seeks 'freedom from the insult of dwelling in a puppet's world' - being trapped in a false existence where one only imitates life. 'Living' is correct. 'Address' and 'palace' are types of buildings but not the meaning of dwelling. 'Thinking' is unrelated.

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