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Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
  1. Lines 41904 - 67835 ("For years, for a lifetime, the machinery of my destiny has worked in secret to prepare for this moment")
  2. Lines 41215 - 46771 ("Yet in freely willing this enterprise, in choosing this moment and no other when the south wind will carry me exactly northward at a velocity of eight knots, I have converted the machinery of my fate into the servant of my will.")
  3. Lines 69675 - 43790 ("And suppose you were to find it in spite of all, this wonderful place that everybody is so anxious to stand on!")
  4. Lines 13810 - 21289 ("What I am on the brink of knowing, I now see, is not an ephemeral mathematical spot but myself.")

A
Lines 13810 - 21289 ("What I am on the brink of knowing, I now see, is not an ephemeral mathematical spot but myself.")
B
Lines 41904 - 67835 ("For years, for a lifetime, the machinery of my destiny has worked in secret to prepare for this moment")
C
Lines 41215 - 46771 ("Yet in freely willing this enterprise, in choosing this moment and no other when the south wind will carry me exactly northward at a velocity of eight knots, I have converted the machinery of my fate into the servant of my will.")
D
Lines 69675 - 43790 ("And suppose you were to find it in spite of all, this wonderful place that everybody is so anxious to stand on!")
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Over the course of the passage, the narrator’s attitude shifts from uncertainty of his motives to recognition of them. The narrator initially expresses uncertainty, or uneasiness, over his decision to set out for the North Pole: “my motives in this undertaking are not entirely clear”. At the end of the passage, the narrator recognizes that because of this journey he is “on the brink of knowing...not an ephemeral mathematical spot", the North Pole, but himself.

The above (shift in focus from uncertainty of his motives to recognition of them) is best supported by option D. In second paragraph provides evidence that the narrator eventually recognizes his motives for traveling to the North Pole: “What I am on the brink of knowing, I now see, is not an ephemeral mathematical spot but myself.” The narrator initially was unsure of why he was traveling to the North Pole, but realizes that he has embarked on a journey to find himself. Options A, B, and C are incorrect because they do not provide the best evidence that the narrator eventually recognizes his motives for traveling to the North Pole.

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