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Question 7 • English 12 B

Which of the following is an example of plagiarism?

Answer

“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.” - Abraham Lincoln

As Abraham Lincoln said during his Lyceum Address, “Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”

Genius does not like a beaten path, but prefers to go places that have not yet been explored.

Abraham Lincoln once said that true genius seeks regions hitherto unexplored and disdains the beaten path.

Explanation

Choice C restates Abraham Lincoln’s idea in different words but gives no credit to him. Using someone else’s idea without attribution is plagiarism, even when the wording is changed. Choice B quotes Lincoln and identifies the source, while choice D attributes its paraphrase to him.

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