According to the passage, many of the people who knew Emily Dickinson thought of her as ______.
A. sociable
B. unusual
C. sad
D. insensitive
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Metamorphosis (in Paragraph 1) means ______.
A. stability
B. interpretation
C. lethargy
D. change
The message the author wishes the reader to get is that ______.
A. statisticians have not advanced since the days of the Romans
B. statisticians love their machines
C. statistics is not as yet a science
D. the American Statistical Association is 125 years old
Certainly the greatest paradox was the fact that the three most pervasive friendships were the most elusive. She saw the Reverend Charles Wadsworth of Philadelphia but three or four times in the course of her life, and then briefly, yet her admiration of him as an ideal and her yearning for him as a person were of us surpassed importance in her growth as a poet. She sought out for professional advice the critic and publicist Thomas Wentworth Higginson and invited his aid as mentor for more than twenty years, though she never once adopted any counsel he dared to hazard. In the last decade of her life, she came to be a warm admirer of the poet and novelist Helen Hunt Jackson, the only qualified judge among Emily Dickinson's contemporaries who believed her to be a great poet, yet Emily Dickinson steadfastly refused to publish even though Mrs. Jackson' s importunity was insistent.
What is the author's main purpose in the passage?
A. To provide information about the childhood of Emily Dickinson.
B. To discuss some of Emily Dickinson's critics.
C. To give some insight into Emily Dickinson's character and personality.
D. To comment on the quality of Emily Dickinson's poetry.
Which of the following statements cannot be inferred from the selection?
A judge should treat each offender as an individual.
B. A judge should try to correct past damage.
C. The problem of sentencing deserves study.
D. A judge refrains from imposing harsh penalties.