Question

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this passage.

Which quotations from “Here Is New York” develop the author’s viewpoint that commuters do not truly experience New York City?

Select each correct answer.


"Except in rare cases, the man who lives in Mamaroneck or Little Neck or Teaneck, and works in New York, discovers nothing much about the city except the time of arrival and departure of trains and buses, and the path to a quick lunch."


"…he has never come suddenly on anything at all in New York as a loiterer, because he has had no time between trains."


"There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable."


"Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness,…"

Answer 1

Sorry if I am too late, the correct answers were,

B. Except in rare cases, the man who lives in Mamaroneck or Little Neck or Teaneck, and works in New York, discovers nothing much about the city except the time of arrival and departure of trains and buses, and the path to a quick lunch.

C. he has never come suddenly on anything at all in New York as a loiterer, because he has had no time between trains.

Answer 2

• "Except in rare cases, the man who lives in Mamaroneck or Little Neck or Teaneck, and works in New York, discovers nothing much about the city except the time of arrival and departure of trains and buses, and the path to a quick lunch."

• "…he has never come suddenly on anything at all in New York as a loiterer, because he has had no time between trains."

In these two passages, the author develops the idea that commuters do not truly experience New York City. The author tells us that people who live outside of New York and take the train into the city everyday do not have much time to spend exploring the city. Therefore, they usually only get to know more about the trains, and buses, and perhaps some places to have lunch.