Question

Read the passage from "Stage Fright" by Mark Twain.

Answer 1

My heart goes out in sympathy to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings. By a direct process of memory I go back forty years, less one month-for I'm older than I look.
I recall the occasion of my first appearance. San Francisco knew me then only as a reporter, and I was to make my bow to San Francisco as a lecturer. I knew that nothing short of compulsion would get me to the theater. So I bound myself by a hard-and-fast contract so that I could not escape. I got to the theater forty-five minutes before the hour set for the lecture. My knees were shaking so that I didn't know whether I could stand up. If there is an awful, horrible malady in the world, it is stage fright-and seasickness. They are a pair. I had stage fright then for the first and last time. I was only seasick once, too. It was on a little ship on which there were two hundred other passengers. I-was-sick. I was so sick

Answer 2

Which statement best expresses the main idea of the passage?

Seasickness is a terrible malady.

It is very difficult to speak in public, especially on a boat.

It is embarrassing to be seasick in front of a large group of people.

It is very difficult to speak in public for the first time.

Answer 3

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It is embarrassing to be seasick in front of a large group of people.

Answer 4

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