Read the excerpt from "Escape." But the universe knows more
I must take this test just like everyone
Takes tests
I am closing in on the sky

This excerpt expresses the theme that it can be difficult to know yourself and your place in the world. Which excerpt from "To Live" expresses the same theme?

I sit in my
crunched-in
restraining
desk, they call it.
with my paper
and my pen
and I am
supposed to see
the blackboard
around the tall boy
en frente de mi
but my head
won’t translate
this language
log base b of a squared
carbon monoxide
reacting with phosphorus
learning without
knowing
without room
to learn how
to know myself
to be myself

What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by general philip henry sheridan? at once i set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the military academy, studying zealously under the direction of mr. william clark; my old teachers, mcnanly and thorn, having disappeared from somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. the intervening months passed rapidly away, and i fear that i did not make much progress, yet i thought i should be able to pass the preliminary examination. that which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights; but these would have been less in number, i fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my, outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded. this requirement was a pair of "monroe shoes." now, out in ohio, what "monroe shoes" were was a mystery—not a shoemaker in my section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them from baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name. a. research essay b. persuasive essay c. biography d. memoir