Question

revolutionary road
read the passage(s) below and answer the questions based on what is stated or implied in the passage(s) and in any introductory material
that may be provided.
in this passage, a newly formed acting group called \the players\ is preparing to put on its first show.
(1) the players, coming out of their various kitchen doors and huddling for a minute to button their coats or pull on their gloves, would see
a landscape in which only a few very old, weathered houses seemed to belong. if made their own homes look as weightless and
impersonal, as foolishly misplaced as a great many bright new toys that had been left outdoors overnight and rained on. (2) their
automobiles, old but well - cared - for - unnecessarily shiny and clean inside, windows at elbows at each
quarter of each, they crawled apologetically down the broken roads that led from all directions to the deep, level slab of route twelve. (3)
once there the cars seemed able to relax in an environment all their own, a long, bright valley of colored plastic and plate glass and countless
signs - arc kone, mobilgas, shoporama, eat - but eventually they had to turn off, one by one, and make their way up the winding
country road that led to the central high school, they had to pull up and stop in the quiet parking lot outside the high - school auditorium.
(4) \hi!\ the players would shyly call to one another
(5) \hi!\
(6) \hi!\
(7) and theyd go reluctantly inside.
(8) clumping their heavy garments around the stage, kidding it down stairs with \cheers!\ and frowning at the unsteady print of their scripts,
they relate down each other at last with peals of forgiving laughter, and they would agree, over and over, that there was plenty of time to
rehearse the thing out. (9) but there wasnt plenty of time, and they all knew it, and a doubling and redoubling of their rehearsal schedule
ensued only to make matters worse. (10) long after the dawn paul janeway for what the director called
eally getting this thing of the ground,
really making it happen,\ it meant a comic, shamefully heavy weight of lines and time again they found themselves pressed in pleasure in
such sillys laps, in the apologetic, rude and endless of their pacing and the sporadic, hearty with which they broke for their cars and drove
home to television cable, less elegant provisions of bedtime might be in wait for them there. (11) and, once long ago, with twenty - four hours to go,
they had costumes managed to keep it all. (12) only in the unavoidable they had to make up and costumes on the first scene ever presented in
play. but regardless to be about, they had all the commitment of the play came and carry them and break like a wave, and maybe it scattered
around jack - webb at 8:00?\ but they had all our three hearts, not their work. (13) could anyone ever ask for more than that?
based on the passage, which of the following most accurately characterizes the claim that \there was plenty of time to rehearse the thing out\
(sentence 8)?
a. a lie that the players know to be untrue but tell themselves to feel better about the situation
b. a lie that the director persuades the players to accept
c. an optimistic conclusion reached by outside observers watching an early rehearsal
d. a realistic view offered by the director after careful analysis of the play

Explanation:

The text describes the Players' situation. They know there isn't really "plenty of time" but say it to comfort themselves. Option A fits as it's a lie they tell themselves. Option B is wrong as there's no mention of the director persuading. Option C is incorrect as it's not an outsider's view. Option D is wrong as it's not a realistic view but a self - comforting lie.

Answer:

A. A lie that the Players know to be untrue but tell themselves to feel better about the situation