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Read these lines: "I wear the chain I forged in life, replied the Ghost. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?" What does the chain stand for?
AThe debts he left unpaid when he died
BThe choices he made freely while alive
CThe years he spent working at his desk
DThe friends who deserted him at the end
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. The choices he made freely while alive
1. The Ghost says he forged the chain himself, so nobody put it on him.
2. He built it link by link, which points to many separate acts adding up over time.
3. He repeats of my own free will twice, which places the responsibility squarely on his own choices.
4. So the chain is made of the choices he made while living, option B.
5. Unpaid debts would have been left to others, but this chain is worn by the man who made it.
_Source: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave I Marley's Ghost_
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