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1. Which statement best summarizes the overall plot of the poem? *
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A. The Duke, whose last wife's loyalty was questionable, had too much self-respect to
stoop to petty jealousy over her behavior toward others,
B. The Duke's last wife, immortalized in a painting, offended her husband's sense of
self-importance with her friendliness, eventually resulting in her questionable end.
C. The Duke's last wife vanished under mysterious circumstances, so the family of the
Duke's potential new wife must take extra precautions before approving the marriage
as they are uncertain he is trustworthy.
D. The painting of the Duke's last wife is no more meaningful to the Duke than his
sculpture of Neptune, revealing to the servant of the potential new wife's family that
he is a shallow and cold man.

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Answer:

B. The Duke's last wife, immortalized in a painting, offended her husband's sense of

self-importance with her friendliness, eventually resulting in her questionable end.

Explanation:

This question refers to Robert Browning's famous poem "My Last Duchess".

The story's set in Duke's palace where the Count's emissary has come to arrange the details between Count's daughter and the Duke's marriage.

As the Duke show the emissary his palace, they stand in front of Duke's last wife's portrait and he tells his story of her.

We see that Duke was bothered by the Duchess's "over-friendliness" and that she was more impressed with other men's romantic gestures towards her than with her husband's old and respected family name ( this emohasizes his narcissistic character). This resulted in her mysterious death.

We can not judge her potential lack of loyalty, because the story is told from the perspective of a self-centered, egoistic man, whose depiction of events doesn't have to be true.

All we can infer from the poem is that her friendly nature and free behavior resulted in her death, probably by her jealous husband's hand.

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