Question

Read these sentences from Passage 1 (Nationalism: A Principal Cause of World War 1). "Many of these countries expected a swift and glorious victory in World War I, not the devastating loss of life and suffering that Macron condemned as the product of nationalism a century later. The Latin phrase 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' was indeed a lie." (paragraph 9)

* What point of view does the author advance with this literary allusion?

○A. World leaders such as Macron are experts on the dangers of nationalism.

○B. Poems about World War I made the dangers of nationalism known to all.

○C. Nationalism led countries to be overly optimistic about the war's outcome.

○D. Nationalism led individuals to sacrifice their lives for no justifiable reason.​

Answer 1

“In Flanders fields, the poppies blow,” it reads, “Between the crosses, row on row.” John McCrae died from pneumonia and meningitis in 1918, but not before the poem became one of World War I's most popular and widely quoted literature.

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