Question

1. based on the information from the text, why do you think the police photograph “was flashed on the screen - upside down, then sideways, upside down again, then right side up”?

44 the rest of harrisons appearance was halloween and hardware. nobody had ever born heavier handicaps. he had outgrown hindrances faster than the h - g men could think them up. instead of a little ear radio for a mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and spectacles⁴ with thick wavy lenses. the spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches besides.
45 scrap metal was hung all over him. ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but harrison looked like a walking junkyard. in the race of life, harrison carried three hundred pounds.
46 and to offset his good looks, the h - g men required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snaggle - tooth random.
47 \if you see this boy,\ said the ballerina, \do not - i repeat, do not - try to reason with him.\

1. why does harrison have so many handicaps?

a. he misbehaved while in prison.
b. he was considered a danger to himself.
c. he led a struggle to overthrow the government.
d. he had too many unique and impressive qualities.
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48 there was the shriek of a door being torn from its hinges.

Explanation:

To answer this, we analyze the text. The story is about a society that enforces handicaps to ensure equality. Harrison has "outgrown hindrances faster than the H - G men could think them up" (from paragraph 44), and details like his strength (carrying 300 pounds of scrap metal, paragraph 45) and good looks (needing a red rubber ball for a nose, shaved eyebrows, etc., paragraph 46) show he has many impressive qualities. Option a: The text doesn't mention prison misbehavior. Option b: There's no indication he's a danger to himself. Option c: The text doesn't say he led a struggle to overthrow the government. Option d matches as the handicaps are to offset his superior qualities.

Answer:

d. He had too many unique and impressive qualities.