Question

reread stanza 3: \if you can make one heap of all your winnings / and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, / and lose, and start again at your beginnings / and never breathe a word about your loss.\ what does this excerpt suggest about the speaker’s view of resilience? a. resilience requires hiding one’s emotions from others. b. resilience means accepting loss and beginning again without complaint. c. resilience depends on others’ recognition of success. d. resilience is found in refusing to take risks in the first place.

Explanation:

• Analyze Option A: The excerpt focuses on starting again after loss, not hiding emotions. Eliminate A.
• Analyze Option B: The lines “lose, and start again at your beginnings / And never breathe a word about your loss” show resilience as accepting loss, restarting, and not complaining. This matches.
• Analyze Option C: The excerpt has no mention of others’ recognition. Eliminate C.
• Analyze Option D: The excerpt involves taking a risk (“risk it on one turn”), so D is wrong.

Answer:

B. Resilience means accepting loss and beginning again without complaint.