Couple of CR questions

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1

<p>There Samuel sat each day,
20 painfully tallying his data, his pencil
poised like a scalpel in his hand, frowning
at the gruesome but inevitable task ahead
of him. Dwarfed by a monstrous blue
suit, Samuel would finger the mournful
25 pre-war bowler that never left his head.
And it was such an earnest sight, such an
intimate window into a man whose nature
seemed to be all windows—people
wondered if he actually had a public self—
30 that he might have been the only man in
the world to claim vulnerability as his
greatest asset.</p>

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<p>41 was punctual and tidy, not overly familiar
with his co-workers; quite simply, the best
employee they had.</p>

<ol>
<li><p>In line 22, the word “gruesome” is closest in meaning
to
(A) shocking
(B) repugnant
(C) frightening
(D) crude
(E) sensational</p></li>
<li><p>The second paragraph implies that Tyne’s clothes
make him appear which of the following?
(A) Casual
(B) Pathetic
(C) Stylish
(D) Proud
(E) Inappropriate</p></li>
<li><p>In line 41, the word “familiar” is closest in meaning to
(A) common
(B) expected
(C) forward
(D) natural
(E) recognizable</p></li>
</ol>

2

<h1>15 especially makes no sense to me. I neeeed an explanation please!</h1>

3

<p>Does anyone have an answer?</p>

4

<p>Why does the paragraph show him as being pathetic? I put inappropriate and I can’t see a difference otherwise…</p>

5

<p>Sorry maybe I’m missing something but who is Tyne?</p>

6

<p>The clothes themselves do not mean anything. You have to look at the passage as a whole. Nowhere in the passage is there detail about him being “inappropriate”, while words like “painfully”, “frowning”, “gruesome”, “mournful” clearly picture a pathetic man.</p>

<p>As for question 14, the only adjective used to describe a work is repugnant, which means distasteful. Paperwork is not usually considered frightening.
Similarly, the answer to question 18 is forward.</p>