When Boldness Becomes Self-Regard

3 questions. Choose the meaning or usage that best fits each situation. Try answering before reopening the passage.

1What makes the first performer self-absorbed at that moment?A. She chooses a quiet rehearsal place after checking that it inconveniences nobody.B. Her attention is so occupied with her own concerns that she overlooks a friend's visible difficulty.C. She asks her friend which instrument case would be easiest to carry.D. She briefly considers her own preparation while also helping everyone around her.

2An excessive concern that every photograph display one's own importance is _____.A. self-effacingB. narcissisticC. unassumingD. collaborative

3Which response is self-righteous?A. Explain a personal transport choice while listening to other people's constraints.B. Revise a moral judgment after learning information that changes its basis.C. Declare everyone who travels differently morally inferior and refuse to consider relevant circumstances.D. Ask how the group can move shared equipment with fewer separate trips.

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