English, 07.09.2021 20:20 Nigward666

Read the following passage from Paul Valéry’s “The Crisis of the Mind” and answer the question. So the Persepolis of the spirit is no less ravaged than the Susa of material fact. Everything has not been lost, but everything has sensed that it might perish. An extraordinary shudder ran through the marrow of Europe. She felt in every nucleus of her mind that she was no longer the same, that she was no longer herself, that she was about to lose consciousness, a consciousness acquired through centuries of bearable calamities, by thousands of men of the first rank, from innumerable geographical, ethnic, and historical coincidences . . . the disordered behavior of mind fleeing from reality to nightmare and from nightmare back to reality, terrified, like a rat caught in a trap . . .
Which of the following best characterizes the mood in Europe that Valéry describes in this passage?

anger
regret
anxiety
determination

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