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Question of the Day: HiSET: Language Arts - Reading

"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."

Passage adapted from Moby Dick, Herman Melville (1851)

What does being at sea offer the speaker?

New adventures

Avoidance of funerals and coffins

Respite from being among other people

Freedom

Moral principles

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