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GAMSAT Section 2 quote prompts: Freedom

1 GAMSAT-style prompt on freedom. Each gives you five comments that disagree, so your job is to find the tension and argue a clear position. Give yourself about 30 minutes per essay.

Task A · ArgumentPrompt 1 of 1

Consider the following comments on freedom.

  • Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

    Mahatma Gandhi

  • Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

    Benjamin Franklin

  • The most dangerous of all is the slave who believes himself free.

    Anonymous

Write a piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your argument and the way you express it.

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