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Which of the following passages best expresses Mark Twain's purpose in ''A Cub Pilot''?

A. He{a pilot} must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

B. Your shouldn't have allowed me or anybody else to shake your confidence in that knowledge. Try to remember that.

C. I had become a good steersman; so good, indeed, that I had all the work to do on our watch, night and day.

D. There is one faculty which a pilot must incessantly cultivate until he has brought it to absolute perfection. Nothing short of perfection will do. That faculty is memory .

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A is the answer because he let his courage be shaken.
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The correct answer is actually B
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