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Question 28 • Common Core ELA 8 - ELA3008 B-IC

Read these lines from Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken.”Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.

Answer
A
Because a choice will take us in certain directions, it is not always possible to know what might have been.
B
If one choice does not work out the way it was intended, it is always possible to go back and change things.
C
Once a decision has been made, one should never look back and wonder what could have been different.
D
When torn between two decisions, it is best to remember that one can always go back and make a different choice.

Explanation

The speaker says he hopes to take the first road another day, but he doubts he will ever return. The phrase “way leads on to way” suggests that one choice leads to others, making it difficult to revisit the original decision. This supports the idea that we cannot always know what might have happened if we had chosen differently; “Because a choice will take us in certain directions, it is not always possible to know what might have been” is the best answer.

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