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Read the following passage and then answer the question.

“…'for to be precocious
Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.”

"Don Juan." Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Which of the following lines explains the description of young Juan as “precocious”?
A. “Young Juan now was sixteen years of age…every body but his mother deem'd him almost man…”
B. “A man well-looking for his years, and who
Was neither much beloved nor yet abhorr'd….”
C. “(‘Twas snow that brought St. Anthony to reason)…”
D. “Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it,
For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.”

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The answer is A)“Young Juan now was sixteen years of age..." because it describes the preciousness his mothe rsaw in him.
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