2. PART B: Which TWO phrases from the text best
support the answers to Part A?
O A "It proved nothing beyond the human capacity for
committing a boundless blunder, but it deeply
affected a group of American writers" (
Paragraph 2)
OB. "It was in this, the turbulent political arena of post-
WWI Europe, where several paragons of the 'Lost
Generation' were truly without a compass." (
Paragraph 8)
OC "Not as lucky as Stein, who escaped all retribution,
Pound was arrested by the U.S. Army in 1945,
charged with treason" ( Paragraph 12)
OD "Steinbeck secretly offered his services to the CIA;
its director, Walter Bedell Smith, was eager to take
him up on the offer" ( Paragraph 21)
O E "But as an author, he was a ruthless iconoclast, an
intellectual rebel in an all-out war on societal
restraints and traditional values." ( Paragraph 22)