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Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts is an 1898 play by Anton Chekhov, originally written in Russian. In the play, Professor Serebrakoff and his wife Helena have come to stay at their country estate, which Vanya manages with the help of Sonia, the professor's daughter from a previous marriage. Chekhov depicts Vanya's opinion of Professor Serebrakoff as having changed significantly, as is evident when ________

Which quotation from a translation of Uncle Vanya most effectively illustrates the claim?

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Vanya says to himself, "I was proud of [Professor Serebrakoff] and of his learning; I received all his words and writings as inspired and now? Now he has retired, and what is the total of his life? A blank! He is absolutely unknown, and his fame has burst like a soap-bubble. I have been deceived; I see that now, basely deceived."

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Vanya says to Professor Serebrakoff, "For twenty-five years I have managed [the country estate], and have sent you the returns from it like the most honest of servants, and you have never given me one single word of thanks for my work, not one—neither in my youth nor now."

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Professor Serebrakoff says to Helena, "It is funny that everybody listens to [Vanya] and his old idiot of a mother, but the moment I open my lips you all begin to feel ill treated."

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Vanya says to Professor Serebrakoff, "This place [the country estate] could never have been bought had I not renounced my inheritance in favor of my sister [the professor's late wife], whom I deeply loved — and what is more, I worked for ten years like an ox. and paid off the debt."

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