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2 2.1.3 Quiz: Understand Conflict and Plot

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Question 4 of 10
Read this passage:
Pavel, a nuclear engineer, works at a nuclear power plant. He notices
that the temperature of the reactor core is rising. He tries routing water
to the core to cool it down, but the temperature just keeps rising, no
matter what he does. If he doesn't find a solution soon, the core will
explode.
Which ending to this story is most clearly an anticlimax?
O A. The door to the control room gets stuck: Pavel cannot escape.
B. The core explodes, and radiation rises to dangerous levels.
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O C. Pavel finds a way to cool the core by pumping in seawater.
O D. Pavel wakes up in his bed and realizes he was just having a
nightmare.
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Answer 1

D. Pavel wakes up in his bed and realizes he was just having a nightmare.

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the given passage, Pavel, a nuclear engineer discovers that the temperature of the reactor core keeps rising and he cannot seem to get it to cool down no matter what.

Therefore, the ending to this story that is most clearly an anticlimax is option D.. This is because it has a disappointing end to the frantic and exciting beginning.

P. S An anticlimax is a figure of speech that shows a series of events in a descending order of importance, from exciting to disappointing.