Read the following excerpt and use it to answer questions 1-3. Excerpt from "Poor Fish" by Alberto Moravia People never know very much about who they are, nor about who is inferior to them and who superior. As for me, I went too far in the direction of thinking myself inferior to everybody. It is true that I was not born with a frame as tough as iron; about as tough as earthenware, let us say. But I looked upon myself as being as fragile as glass, as the thinnest glass, in fact; and that was altogether too much. That was debasing myself too far. I used often to say to myself: now let’s run over our own qualities. Physical strength, then - nil: I am small, crooked, rickety, my arms and legs are like sticks, I’m like a spider. Intelligence - very little above nil, considering that I’ve never managed, out of all the jobs there are, to rise above that of dish-washer in a hotel. Looks - less than nil: I have a narrow, yellow face, eyes of an indefinite, dirty colour, and a nose that seems to have been made for a face twice as broad as mine; it is big and long, and looks as if it was going straight down, and then, at the tip, it turns up like a lizard raising its snout. Other qualities, such as courage, quickness, personal charm, likeableness - less said about them the better. Quite naturally, then, after coming to such conclusions, I was careful not to make advances to women. The only one I ever attempted to approach - a housemaid in the hotel - put me in my place with a very suitable word - “you poor fish,” she said. And so I became gradually convinced that I was worth nothing at all and that the best thing for me to do was to keep quiet, in a corner, so as not to get in anybody’s way. 2. Which piece of evidence is NOT a support for the main type of conflict in the passage?(3 points) Responses "Quite naturally, then, after coming to such conclusions, I was careful not to make advances to women." "Quite naturally, then, after coming to such conclusions, I was careful not to make advances to women." "I am small, crooked, rickety, my arms and legs are like sticks, I’m like a spider." "I am small, crooked, rickety, my arms and legs are like sticks, I’m like a spider." "I became gradually convinced that I was worth nothing at all and that the best thing for me to do was to keep quiet, in a corner, so as not to get in anybody’s way." "I became gradually convinced that I was worth nothing at all and that the best thing for me to do was to keep quiet, in a corner, so as not to get in anybody’s way." "People never know very much about who they are, nor about who is inferior to them and who superior."

Answer 1

"People never know very much about who they are, nor about who is inferior to them and who superior."