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The parents of a 5-year-old boy who is very near death are at the bedside.The parents ask, “Can he hear what we are telling him?” Which response by the nurse would be most appropriate?

This author found his upper-class background burdensome, and eventually his rebel against it led to his expulsion from school.

This author gave up American citizenship to become a subject of the King of England.  

This author was always haunted by feelings of inferiority to his father.  

This author suffered eleven eye operations to salvage his ever-worsening eyesight  

He wrote “The Metamorphosis.”

This author enjoyed success as a writer and intellectual at the court of Napoleon III.

This author faced charges of homosexuality and was sentenced to two years hard labor for the crime of sodomy.  

This author is one of the few writers whose greatest works were written after the award of the Nobel Prize.

Upon returning from France, this author went on a long walking tour that drove him to poetry.