Come, brothers all!
Shall we not wend
The blind-way of our prison-world
By sympathy entwined?
Shall we not make (5)
The bleak way for each other’s sake
Less rugged and unkind?
O let each throbbing heart repeat
The faint note of another’s beat
To lift a chanson for the feet (10)
That stumble down life’s checkered street.
1. According to the passage, that which is "unkind" (line 7) is
A. a person's journey through life
B. the author's memories of prison
C. the way strangers treat the author
D. the way the author's brother treats him
2. The ideas described in lines 8-9 echo which sentiment from the poem?
A. blind-way (line 3)
B. sympathy entwined (line 4)
C. bleak way (line 6)
D. rugged and unkind (line 7)
Are the answers A for 1 and B for 2?
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