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Excerpts from We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
1924

PART A: Which of the following best describes a central theme of the text?

A. Freedom is a difficult concept to grasp.
B. Technology and progress may come at the cost of humanity.
C. One must try to resist blending in with the crowd.
D. War can drastically change both a people and a society.

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B.

We (Zamyatin) centers on a highly regimented, technologically driven One State where mechanization, rational planning, and "progress" erase individuality and human feeling. While resistance to conformity appears (so C), the broader, central critique is that technological/collective "advancement" comes at the cost of humanity. Options A and D are too narrow or off-focus.