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excerpted froth the speech Citizenship in a Republic
The Man in the Arena
By Theodore Roosevelt
1 It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have
done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but
who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy
cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Shame on the man of
cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.
Among the free peoples who govern themselves there is but a small field of usefulness open, for the men of cloistered life who
shrink from contact with their fellows. Still less room is there for those who deride of slight what is done by those who actually bear
the brunt of the day; nor yet for those others who always profess that they would like to take action, if only the conditions of life
Select the correct answer.
What is an objective summary of the selection?
OA. The individual who takes risks is the individual who decides how powerful the voice of critics are in their life.
O B.
C.
O D.
The individual who risks it all is the only voice that can truly speak to an experience, not the voices of critics.
The individual who seeks to better themselves must brace themselves for critics who are more knowledgeable in life.
The individual who decides to make a decision needs to have critics to affirm the right choices are made in life.