Left
You would have had a much clearer idea of what Obama said if he had stated it as "The ambition of poverty ... ." Of course then everyone would have understood it and perhaps not liked it. But it is what he meant, sort of.
He means that we have to steer clear of ambition that does not have hard work behind it. So one of the key ideas behind these sentences is B. You need two ideas but B is certainly one of them.
The other one as stated in the last sentence is to be obedient to your own goals. That's D. So your two answers are B and D.
Middle
Except for his nephew, Fred, Scrooge has no family. He makes no such promise as E.
D is sort of correct, but we should wait and see if we get anything better.
C is what is related to what we read. The sum is so large that the man hearing of it cannot believe he is hearing it correctly. I think C is better than D.
B is also correct in the same way that D is. The problem is that he doesn't think of it as duty. He thinks of it as the right thing to do. That's not the same thing as duty. Duty is obedience to something you might not even agree with. Doing the right thing is the Joy of Giving that is spoken of in the Bible for example and other places as well. It is most simply the right thing to do.
A. He spends nothing on himself that isn't necessary. Even the sign above his door of his place of business has not been replaced after Marley's death. Scrooge a miser.
The answer is C
Right
This would take nearly a lifetime to explain. The simplest answer is B. The whole point of Job's suffering is make him understand that God's Will is what must be done. He has been put through the most horrible of tests and in the end he comes to believe that it is man's lot to suffer, but it is not God's doing that brought suffering into our lives. The summary is not quite correct. Job looses his family, but is given another to replace the ones that were taken or lost. You have to read the first couple of chapters to find out why.
Scrooge on the other hand, has gone through a nightmare of experiences in one night. They both have suffered and both of them came to understand what righteousness really means.
