Please help (2 questions about the text) 1. According to the text, why can be assumed that in spite of the fact that the Bible was among the first books to be mass produced, it might not be so effective to spread Christian beliefs during Gutenberg’s time?

2. What is an irony shown by the text in relation to Gutenberg’s life

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

he can eat everything and drink whatever he wants

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the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)