68A Prose Fiction Line 2

Always in those first few minutes when the shuttle left the parent ship and accelerated to clear the gravitational pull of the larger mass, Lee was sure she had made a terrible mistake.

68A Prose Fiction Line 5

She didn't belong here; none of them did—fragile creatures set in rows in a canister shot through black space.

68A Prose Fiction Line 7

To be here was madness, an insane presumption, and there was no way to escape.

68A Prose Fiction Line 10

All she was, all she had accomplished, meant nothing in this time of desperate sanity.

68A Prose Fiction Line 16

Three miles long, half a mile deep and wide, the starship was a tribute to the art of welding.

68A Prose Fiction Line 17

It floated in deep space like a chunk of bizarre litter.

68A Prose Fiction Line 24

In this confinement of starships individual quirks became well-known.

68A Prose Fiction Line 31

It had been discovered five hundred Earth years before; there were records of several landings there, but little more than basic data survived in the corporate archives.

68A Prose Fiction Line 46

Five hundred years earlier, tests of sentience had been crude, full of Earthly chauvinism, unreliable.

68A Prose Fiction Line 47

Five hundred years earlier, tests of sentience had been crude, full of Earthly chauvinism, unreliable.

68A Prose Fiction Line 51

Her father said she was a product of a more primitive era.

68A Prose Fiction Line 60

The child in her never quite forgave her ancestors for that crime.

68A Prose Fiction Line 73

Fifteen space years had passed since then, and five more expeditions.

68A Prose Fiction Line 77

She had gained also in that time a devout respect for life.

68A Prose Fiction Question 5

Information in the passage indicates that Lee's dream is to:

D. discover a place where animal life abounds.

68A Prose Fiction Question 6

In the context of the passage, the statement in lines 23-24 most nearly means that:

H. people often become claustrophobic when working on starships.

68G Prose Fiction Line 4

A conscientious and self-effacing laborer, ever humble before his craft, he never thought he'd have any money and figured out, as a young man, that he would always live humbly, “without means, ” practicing his illustrative and painterly skills into his old age.

68G Prose Fiction Line 33

Every so often he had gone to work for the Steichman brothers, whose animation studio was down on Lafayette Street.

68G Prose Fiction Line 35

It was an obscure studio, the big animation houses being out in California.

68G Prose Fiction Line 48

He did his bit as a civilian employee with a unit of the Army Information Service out in Secaucus, New Jersey, where he worked for three years during the war, churning out instructional comics with titles like “Hygiene at Sea”, pamphlets, and posters about everything from malaria to dental hygiene.

68G Prose Fiction Line 51

Sometimes while resting, traffic noise would take him back to his early days in Manhattan, after the war, when he lived in a walk-up on Fiftieth Street, as a plodding, ever slow but firstrate freelancer, who fell in love with Annie Macguire.

68G Prose Fiction Line 65

Adorable and ever so tender, on his back, little feet up, his face would go into delighted contortions when Ives, the shyest and most reticent father in the world, would stand over his and touch his belly.

68G Prose Fiction Line 67

Thinking about Robert, Ives would always fondly remember those evenings he spent in 1948, at the Art Students League.

68G Prose Fiction Line 80

That she was an art and English teacher at a school on the Upper East Side, her pay lousy.

68G Prose Fiction Line 87

Ives couldn't tell if she was a snob or simply private.

68C Prose Fiction Line 9

I would never have guessed that such a consummate storyteller lay waiting all these years inside my father.

68C Prose Fiction Line 15

But so far he has not told us any stories involving my mother, though he does mention her—lovingly, ruefully—in passing.

68C Prose Fiction Line 31

No, stories tucked within the envelopes of other stories, an entire post office worth of them, filling me with giddy anticipation.

68C Prose Fiction Line 49

“No pandering to tourist types here, ” he adds sternly.

68C Prose Fiction Line 63

“We are artists, Rakhi, ” he said loftily.

68C Prose Fiction Line 77

Is this prophecy, intuition, or just a guess?

68C Prose Fiction Line 81

It's not the loneliness of being without a mate, but something more primal.

68C Prose Fiction Question 8

It is reasonable to infer that the question in Lines 56-57 is prompted by Rakhi's feeling of:F. outrage over the seemingly endless demands her father is making of her.

69A Prose Fiction Line 27

It's as if I were in a trance.

69A Prose Fiction Question 1

It can most reasonably be inferred that which of the following events mentioned in the passage occurred first chronologically?

A. The narrator dances for the president of the United States.

B. The narrator watches a seagull's flight while cleaning the beach in front of her house.

C. The narrator is given the parka that she wears while performing the seagull dance.

D. The narrator arrives at the village gymnasium.

69A Prose Fiction Question 4

In the first paragraph, the narrator seems most affected by the seagull's:

H. ascent

69A Prose Fiction Question 9

As it is used in lines 58 and 61,the word trimmed most nearly means:

A. embellished

B. shortened

C. tidied up

D. condensed

67F Prose Fiction Line 7

We had all kinds of peddlers who went from house to house, selling fresh bean curd and steamed buns, twisted dough and colorful candies.

67F Prose Fiction Line 19

The family home grew from a simple three-pillar house to a compound with wings stretching five pillars each.

67F Prose Fiction Line 21

All in all, our family was successful but not so much that we caused great envy.

64E Prose Fiction Line 58

She thinks I have a power that she doesn't have and this brings out her envy and bad humor.

67F Prose Fiction Line 39

According to Great-Granny, the studio began as a grain shed that sat along the front wall of the courtyard house.

67F Prose Fiction Line 52

In the winter, it was sheep hides to keep out the snow.

67F Prose Fiction Line 75

Her calligraphy was even better than Father's.

69F Prose Fiction Line 17

“I said when's the next train, ” Brand said, in a monotone.

69F Prose Fiction Line 24

He took the billfold from the inner pocket of his coat and hung his badge out in front of the kid's nose.

69F Prose Fiction Line 25

“Yes, sir, ” the agent said briskly.

69F Prose Fiction Line 28

The men there were watching him mutely.

69F Prose Fiction Line 31

This was a pudgy man with thinning hair.

69F Prose Fiction Line 46

“Cold, for Match, ” said one of the men tentatively.

69F Prose Fiction Line 48

It was bad enough to be recognized, it made him edgy when people knew him but he didn't know them.

69F Prose Fiction Line 63

He could not penetrate the man's eager smiling mask.

69F Prose Fiction Line 69

The men on the bench, who were listening with keen ears, rumbled up a burst of muted hilarity.

69F Prose Fiction Line 80

“Show it to him, Billy boy, ” one of the men on the bench bawled, “Go on.”

69F Prose Fiction Line 88

The men by the stove bellowed with laughter.

69F Prose Fiction Line 94

It seemed like him standing there, and the other boys jeering, “Stumpy! ”

69F Prose Fiction Line 95

I need a deputy, maybe, on this case I'm on now.

69F Prose Fiction Line 98

The raucous voices of the other men died away.

69F Prose Fiction Line 106

He wondered why he had saddled himself with this stranger.

69F Prose Fiction Question 1

To develop the characterization of Brand, the author uses all of the following EXCEPT:

A. physical description of Brand.

B. references to Brand's role models.

C. description of how others respond to Brand.

D. dialogue between Brand and others at the station.

69F Prose Fiction Question 4

Patch is characterized in the passage as:

G. funny, conniving, and slow-moving.

69F Prose Fiction Question 4

Patch is characterized in the passage as:

H. fidgety, deceitful, and self-centered.

69F Prose Fiction Question 4

Patch is characterized in the passage as:

J. overbearing, intellectual, and isolated.

69F Prose Fiction Question 6

As presented in lines 84-96, Brand's manner toward Patch can best be described as changing from:

G. friendly to stern.

69F Prose Fiction Question 7

When Brand says, “I'm not buying a ticket” (line 22), he is most likely making the point that:

B. he's entitled to ride the train without paying because of his profession.

69F Prose Fiction Question 9

The passage indicates that the fact that some of the men in the station recognized Brand left him with a feeling of:

D. indifference.

69F Prose Fiction Question 10

Which of the following statements best paraphrases the twentieth paragraph (line 62-64)?

F. Brand can't determine whether Patch is expressing a genuine emotion or trying to manipulate him.

70G Prose Fiction Line 15

The family name was originally Battaglia, but my father and uncles decided early on to change their name to Battle for the usual reasons immigrants and others like them will do, for the sake of familiarity and ease of use and to herald a new and optimistic beginning, which is anyone's right, whether warranted or not.

70G Prose Fiction Line 18

Battle, too, is a nice name for a business, because it's simple and memorable, ethnically indistinct, and then squarely patriotic, though in a subtle sort of way.

70G Prose Fiction Line 19

Battle, too, is a nice name for a business, because it's simple and memorable, ethnically indistinct, and then squarely patriotic, though in a subtle sort of way.

70G Prose Fiction Line 21

Customers—Jack says clients—have the sense we're fighters, that we have an inner resolve, that we'll soldier through all obstacles to get the job done, and done right.

70G Prose Fiction Line 25

My father insists that the idea for the name originated with him, and for just the connotations I've mentioned, which I don't doubt, as he was always the savviest businessman of his brothers, and talked incessantly through my youth about the awesome power of words.

70G Prose Fiction Line 27

My father insists that the idea for the name originated with him, and for just the connotations I've mentioned, which I don't doubt, as he was always the savviest businessman of his brothers, and talked incessantly through my youth about the awesome power of words.

70G Prose Fiction Line 28

My father insists that the idea for the name originated with him, and for just the connotations I've mentioned, which I don't doubt, as he was always the savviest businessman of his brothers, and talked incessantly through my youth about the awesome power of words.

70G Prose Fiction Line 33

But this is world history and I'm not going to rail on about the degradation of standards or the work ethic.

70G Prose Fiction Line 39

Sometimes I think Jack's is a tough slot, given the never-ending onslaught of instant information and the general wisdom these days that if you don't “grow” your business at a certain heady rate it will wither and die.

70G Prose Fiction Line 41

Sometimes I think Jack's is a tough slot, given the never-ending onslaught of instant information and the general wisdom these days that if you don't “grow” your business at a certain heady rate it will wither and die.

70G Prose Fiction Line 46

Now with the economy in the doldrums he probably wished he hadn't built his mega-minimansion but he doesn't seem concerned.

70G Prose Fiction Line 79

That I ought to try my hand at being a travel professional, which, it turns out, despite her snide deconstructive terminology, was just my calling.

70G Prose Fiction Question 1

The passage can best be described as primarily:

A. the reflections of a man considering the past and current state of the family business and his role in both.

B. an account of the rise and fall of a family business as told by one of its founders.

C. an attempt by a business owner to understand the falling-out he's had with his father over how the family business is run.

D. a father's tribute to a son who is taking over the family business at a difficult time.

70G Prose Fiction Question 3

The narrator explicitly declines to take a firm stand on which of the following issues?

A. Which family member or members will have faced the greatest challenges in running the business.

B. Whether changing the family name from Battaglia to Battle was a reasonable thing to do.

C. What the main difference is between his father and him.

D. In what ways he served the company well.

70C Prose Fiction Line 1

The first time I heard about tattoo, I was still a little girl.

70C Prose Fiction Line 13

Her eyes on the sea, as if captivated by these ever-rolling waves.

70C Prose Fiction Line 65

With his arms wrapped around me, he chanted.

70C Prose Fiction Question 8

The passage indicates that when the narrator's grandmother tried to imitate the tattoo lady, the narrator's grandmother found the heat of the sun to be:

F. distracting

70C Prose Fiction Question 9

The design of the tattoos on men in the army are portrayed in the passage by the narrator's grandmother as being:

D. revered

71A Prose Fiction Line 5

Now that you're warmed up, let's demolish those Vikings.

71A Prose Fiction Line 16

Things haven't had time to get so cluttered yet.

71A Prose Fiction Line 18

With Mr. Kaplan you don't whine or mutter.

71A Prose Fiction Line 18

With Mr. Kaplan you don't whine or mutter.

71A Prose Fiction Line 61

I'd worried and fretted and trembled, but we'd gotten the tape made.

71A Prose Fiction Line 83

I'm concerned about the articulation in spots, and some of the dynamics aren't at all what they should be and...hmmm.

71A Prose Fiction Line 86

Then he turned sideways on the bench again, straddling it.

71A Prose Fiction Question 3

The passage suggests that concerning her current activities, Allegra feels:

B. resigned to the end of softball season but eager for it to start again the next year.

71A Prose Fiction Question 5

In the context of the passage, Allegra's statement in lines 42-45 indicates her:

B. exasperation with Mr. Kaplan for taking so much time with the introduction.

71A Prose Fiction Question 10

In the passage, Allegra indicates that she practiced a tricky part in the concerto without making any sound by:

F. moving her hand to various positions on the fingerboard.

G. sliding the bow lightly across the violin strings.

H. thinking through her part note by note in her head.

j. silently pretending to play the introduction on the piano.

71G Prose Fiction Line 24

I got into the habit of knocking on his door when I got home from work in case there was some errand or muscle work he needed.

71G Prose Fiction Line 43

His hands were unsteady and his eyes were shot.

71G Prose Fiction Line 48

I liked him, in part, because he talked like no one else I knew, probably only a reflection of his age, vestiges of another time showing in his vocabulary, favorite expressions, a reserve of restraint which prevented him from using most vulgar language.

71G Prose Fiction Line 50

I liked him, in part, because he talked like no one else I knew, probably only a reflection of his age, vestiges of another time showing in his vocabulary, favorite expressions, a reserve of restraint which prevented him from using most vulgar language.

71G Prose Fiction Line 53

When he was evicted from the apartments, he asked me to move in with him, to split the house he was moving to.

71G Prose Fiction Line 61

I was afraid of getting still more tangled up than I already was, of his growing dependency, of making my temporary abandonment of social life with people of my own age and station into a permanent condition.

71G Prose Fiction Line 64

I was afraid of getting still more tangled up than I already was, of his growing dependency, of making my temporary abandonment of social life with people of my own age and station into a permanent condition.

71G Prose Fiction Line 66

Splitting a house with Brewster might not have meant that, but at the time the prospect felt like being pulled under water I had been just sort of pleasantly floating in, expecting sometime sooner or later to return to land.

71G Prose Fiction Line 85

Finally I said, “Well, ” and looked down into the courtyard, so obviously with nothing to look at that I almost stumbled into the railing.

56B Prose Fiction Line 78

Going out, he stumbled over a rug, and trying to recover himself, hit Louisa's work-basket on the table, and knocked it on the floor.

71G Prose Fiction Question 3

When the narrator mentions “rituals of a friendship” (line 14), he's most nearly referring to:

B. everyday activities routinely undertaken with someone else.

71G Prose Fiction Question 8

As the narrator looks back on the period he knew Brewster, the narrator realizes that he:

F. enjoyed it greatly while it was happening, but how regards it with anguish and guilt.

71G Prose Fiction Question8

As the narrator looks back on the period he knew Brewster, the narrator realizes that he:

G. complained a great deal while it was happening, but now regards it fondly.

71G Prose Fiction Question 9

The references to water and land in lines 65-69 are most likely intended to suggest that at the time, the narrator felt:

D. distressed at having grown distant from Brewster.

71G Prose Fiction Question 10

In the context of the passage, the concluding two sentences (lines 8-9) are most likely meant to suggest that:

F. a painful realization is being downplayed.

71G Prose Fiction Question 10

In the context of the passage, the concluding two sentences (lines 8-9) are most likely meant to suggest that:

G. a halfhearted attempt at reconciliation has been rejected.

1MC Prose Fiction Line 31

I knew how those Nazis feel when suddenly, after twenty or thirty uneventful years, they are arrested walking down some sunny street in Buenos Aires.

1MC Prose Fiction Line 61

“What about you? ” she snorted, pointing a Jungle Orchid fingernail at me. “You're a grandmother.”

1MC Prose Fiction Line 76

Only her nose is more aristocratic.

1MC Prose Fiction Line 79

Mother nodded, scrutinizing the picture in her lap.

1MC Prose Fiction Line 81

“Of course I am, ” I bristled. “I may be some things, but I am not rude.”

1MC Prose Fiction Line 84

She swiveled her eyes sideways at me.

1MC Prose Fiction Question 1

Fran would most likely agree with which of the following statements about her relationship with Linda Rose?

B. They have built up too much resentment toward each other to have a good relationship now.

1MC Prose Fiction Question 2

Fran's mother can most accurately be characterized as:

H. friendly but withdrawn.

1MC Prose Fiction Question 6

According to the passage, when Fran looks at her mother, Fran feels:

G. embarrassed by the gaudy colors of nail polish her mother uses.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 3

I discovered soon after my arrival in Virginia that everything, even the simple business of shopping the American way, unsettled my mother's nerves.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 5

But inside, the A&P brimmed with unexpected abundance.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 7

Metal stands overflowed with giant oranges and meticulously arranged grapefruits.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 10

Columns of canned vegetables and fruits stood among multiple shelves as people well rehearsed to the demands of modern shopping meandered through florescent aisles.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 12

I remembered the sharp chilled air against my face, the way the hydraulic door made a sucking sound as it closed behind.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 17

She could not give in to the precision of previously weighed and packaged food, the bloodlessness of beef slabs in translucent wrappers, the absence of carcasses and pigs' heads.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 24

It was always noisy there —a voluptuous mix of animal and human sounds.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 27

The odor of horses, partially camouflaged by the scent of guavas and bananas.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 32

My mother would feign indifference and they would inevitably call out to her.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 37

They knew my mother's slick bargaining skills, and she, in turn, knew how to navigate with grace through their extravagant prices and rehearsed huffiness.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 49

She preferred the improvisation of haggling to the conventional certainty of discount coupons, the primordial messiness and fish-mongers' stink of the open-air market to the aroma-free order of individually wrapped fillets.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 56

I would have to forgo the luxury of adolescent experiments and temper tantrums, so that I could scoop my mother out of harm's way and give her sanctuary.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 66

Of course, all children eventually watch their parents' astonishing return to the vulnerability of childhood, but for us the process begins much earlier than expected.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 72

It took a few moments' hesitation for my mother to succumb to the peculiarity of my explanation.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 77

She gestured us to “come over here” with an upturned index finger, a disdainful hook we Vietnamese use to summon dogs.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 79

My mother did not understand the ambiguity of American hand gestures.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 84

“Even the store clerks look down on us, ” my mother grumbled.

2MC Prose Fiction Line 85

It was not the enormous or momentous event, but the gradual suggestion of irrevocable and protracted change that threw us off balance and made us know in no uncertain terms that we would not be returning to the familiarity of our former lives.

2MC Prose Fiction Question 5

It can reasonably be inferred that the narrator views her mother's approach to shopping at the sky market with a mixture of:

D. respect and nostalgia.

2MC Prose Fiction Question 6

The passage states that the narrator became aware of her mother's particular way of behaving in the sky markets as a result of:

J. tagging along defiantly on shopping trips against the wishes of her strong-willed mother.

2MC Prose Fiction Question 10

The narrator refers to “temper tantrums” (lines 57-58) as behavior she would have to view as:

F. one of the best ways she could use to get her mother's undivided attention.

G. a luxury she could not afford in her new relation-ship with her mother.

H. a part of her character that she inherited from her headstrong mother.

J. an understandable reaction on her mother's part to a confusing new set of circumstances.

3MC Prose Fiction Line 2

He was thinning out, becoming angular and clumsy, but the cautiousness, the old-man seriousness he'd had as a baby, kept him contained, ageless and safe.

3MC Prose Fiction Line 51

He concocted a latch and a door.

3MC Prose Fiction Line 56

He began to build the top floor now but he had to prune some limbs out of the way.

3MC Prose Fiction Line 57

So he stacked them to one side for kindling and began to brace things in place.

3MC Prose Fiction Line 59

It felt weird going up into the tree, not as safe as his small, contained place on the ground.

3MC Prose Fiction Line 61

Vida noticed Ted had become cheerful and would stand next to her, to her left side, talking sometimes.

3MC Prose Fiction Line 75

The sides were sharp, the cuts were slow and meticulous with a steady pressure.

3MC Prose Fiction Line 77

The design's plan had to be absolutely followed or the beautiful glass would go to waste, and he'd curse himself.

3MC Prose Fiction Question 1

The passage establishes that Vida and Ted have all of the following traits in common EXCEPT:

A. a willingness to accommodate the requests each makes of the other.

B. a response to elements of nature.

C. a perception of others that surfaces in humor.

D. an awareness of what delights the other.

3MC Prose Fiction Question 1

The passage establishes that Vida and Ted have all of the following traits in common EXCEPT:

G. a perception of others that surfaces in humor.

3MC Prose Fiction Question 2

Which of the following is NOT an accurate description of the passage?

H. A look at how two characters—one grown, one young—behave when each perceives the fragility of someone or something he or she holds dear.

3MC Prose Fiction Question 2

Which of the following is NOT an accurate description of the passage?

J. A portrait of two family members whose painful disagreements force one to seek shelter outside the home until they reach an understanding.

3MC Prose Fiction Question 3

In both the twelfth paragraph (lines 61-69) and the thirteenth paragraph (lines 70-77) the author is portraying characters who:

A. feel compelled to act carefully in order to avoid shattering something precious.

3MC Prose Fiction Question 3

In both the twelfth paragraph (lines 61-69) and the thirteenth paragraph (lines 70-77) the author is portraying characters who:

B. are frustrated to the point of indignation that success seems always slightly out of reach.

3MC Prose Fiction Question 5

Which of the following best describes the difference between Ted as a little boy and Ted at the time he builds and occupies the fort?

B. As a teenager Ted is physically clumsier and more angular than he was as a child, but he retains the humor, cautiousness, and seriousness that distinguished him at an early age.

3MC Prose Fiction Question 5

Which of the following best describes the difference between Ted as a little boy and Ted at the time he builds and occupies the fort?

D. As a child Ted was outgoing in a way that appealed to adults, but as a teenager he was introspective in a way that alarmed them.

3MC Prose Fiction Question 6

The passage indicates that Vida was not surprised by Ted's decision to build a fort because she:

G. sensed that it fit with his tendency to approach life as if he were self-contained.

3MC Prose Fiction Question 6

The passage indicates that Vida was not surprised by Ted's decision to build a fort because she:

J. had noticed that he no longer worried that his fascination with nature would interfere with his longstanding craving for the company of others.

3MC Prose Fiction Question 8

Which of the following best describes the way the seventh paragraph (lines 25-27) functions in the passage?

F. It reinforces the image of Vida established else—where in the passage as someone whose skeptical nature disheartens Ted on the brink of new projects.

3MC Prose Fiction Question 9

According to the passage, Ted attributes which of the following characteristics to the redwoods?

D. They grace their surroundings with a serenity that softens disturbing emotions like fear of the dark.

3MC Prose Fiction Question 10

Ted felt that in comparison to the ground floor of the fort, going up into the tree to build the top floor seemed:

F. safer because the top floor was less accessible to intruders.

MC3 Prose Fiction Line 27

She watched now as he slowly mounted the bandstand and conferred with the bassist and drummer, those two were all he would need.

MC3 Prose Fiction Line 32

Then, without announcing the name of the tune he intended playing, without in any way acknowledging the audience, he sat down at the piano and brought his hands—large hands, the fingers long and splayed and slightly arched—down on the opening bars of “Sonny Boy Blue.”

MC3 Prose Fiction Line 35

Around her, the purists looked askance at each other from behind their regulation Shades and slouched deeper in their chairs in open disgust.

MC3 Prose Fiction Line 38

At first, hokey though it was, he played the song straight through as written, the rather long introduction, verse, and chorus.

MC3 Prose Fiction Line 56

He unleashed a dazzling pyrotechnic of chords, polyrhythms, seemingly unrelated harmonies, and ideas—fresh, brash, outrageous ideas.

MC3 Prose Fiction Line 60

He continued to acknowledge the little simple-minded tune, while at the same time furiously recasting and reinventing it in an image all his own.

MC3 Prose Fiction Line 70

His right side, his right ear directed skyward, hearing up there, in the Upper Room among the stars Mahalia sang about, a new land of music: splintered, atonal, profane, and possessing a wonderful dissonance that spoke to him, to his soul-case.

MC3 Prose Fiction Line 89

They too stood up in languid praise of him.

MC3 Prose Fiction Question 2

The main purpose of the statement in line 62 is to:

H. counteract the narrator's description of Everett Payne's performance.

MC3 Prose Fiction Question 6

The passage initially portrays the purists, most nearly as:

G. snobbish and intolerant.

MC3 Prose Fiction Question 6

The passage initially portrays the purists, most nearly as:

J. inexperienced and uninhibited.

MC3 Prose Fiction Question 10

The narrator states that to Hattie, Everett Payne's performance was:

G. deliberate yet absentminded.

MC3 Prose Fiction Question 10

The narrator states that to Hattie, Everett Payne's performance was:

G. deliberate yet absentminded.

67A Prose Fiction Line 55

They heap up and make a picture of a spring that's slow to come, when the ground stays frozen late into March and the air is raw, and the skies are sulky and dark.

67A Prose Fiction Line 90

I felt so excited I couldn't walk soberly.

67A Prose Fiction Line 93

I had the doors of the truck tied open with a piece of rope so the air could rush through, but it felt hot enough to scorch my bare ankles, and the heat of the engine came up through the rubber soles of my sneakers.

67A Prose Fiction Question 4

The narrator describes her mom as having all of the following EXCEPT:

J. a commitment to caring for her belongings.

67A Prose Fiction Question 10

When the narrator's dad tells her that he has decided to sell the current crop of wheat, the narrator reacts to the news with a feeling of excitement that:

J. is tinged with guilt.

62D Prose Fiction Line 4

For thirty years, until he retired, my husband stood each fall in front of his sophomore genetics class and passed out copies of Gregor Mendel's famous paper on the hybridization of edible peas.

62D Prose Fiction Line 4

For thirty years, until he retired, my husband stood each fall in front of his sophomore genetics class and passed out copies of Gregor Mendel's famous paper on the hybridization of edible peas.

62D Prose Fiction Line 32

Over the next eight years Mendel performed hundreds of experiments on thousands of plants, tracing the ways in which characteristics were passed through generations.

62D Prose Fiction Line 34

Peas were wrinkled or smooth.

62D Prose Fiction Line 36

He kept meticulous records of his hybridizations in order to write the paper the students now held in their hands.

62D Prose Fiction Line 44

Mendel read to them for an hour, describing his experiments and demonstrating the invariable ratios with which traits appeared in his hybrids.

62D Prose Fiction Line 46

A month later, at the Society's next meeting, he presented the theory he'd formulated to account for his results.

62D Prose Fiction Line 53

Was there a great outcry of approval or even a mutter of disagreement?

62D Prose Fiction Line 79

The one I told him, in which Mendel is led astray by a condescending fellow scientist and the behavior of the hawkweeds.

62D Prose Fiction Line 80

The one I told him, in which Mendel is led astray by a condescending fellow scientist and the behavior of the hawkweeds.

62D Prose Fiction Question 1

Which of the following statements best describes the qualities of Mendel's scientific work as it is depicted in the passage?

B. His research on edible-pea plants was systematic and thorough, and he recorded and presented his findings with great precision and care.

62D Prose Fiction Question 3

Richard most nearly describes Mendel as being:

A. persistent, egotistical, and educated.

62D Prose Fiction Question 3

Richard most nearly describes Mendel as being:

A. persistent, egotistical, and educated.

62D Prose Fiction Question 3

Richard most nearly describes Mendel as being:

F. argumentative, controlling, and hexadactylic.

62D Prose Fiction Question 4

Which of the following statements best summarizes Richard's view of the importance of Mendel's work?

J. Mendel, through his solitary studies, paved the way for major advances in science.

62D Prose Fiction Question 5

As it is presented in the passage, the relationship between Richard and the narrator appears to be based on:

A. collegiality and sarcasm.

62D Prose Fiction Question 5

As it is presented in the passage, the relationship between Richard and the narrator appears to be based on:

B. shared humor and obedience.

62D Prose Fiction Question 5

As it is presented in the passage, the relationship between Richard and the narrator appears to be based on:

D. watchfulness and one-upmanship.

62D Prose Fiction Question 6

As they are presented in the fourth paragraph (lines 30-46), Mendel's findings can best be described as:

H. suggestive but tentative, since he was unable to develop a reasonable theory to account for his data.

62D Prose Fiction Question 7

The way in which Richard asks questions in the sixth paragraph (lines 52-55) and answers them in the seventh paragraph (lines 56-60) is most likely meant to emphasize how:

B. embarrassing it is that Mendel, a future abbot, spent his time writing an incomprehensible paper.

62D Prose Fiction Question 8

It can reasonably be inferred that Richard considers the details about Mendel's life in the eighth paragraph (lines 61-71) to be:

J. disturbing, because such sketchy information is available about the rest of Mendel's life.

62D Prose Fiction Question 8

It can reasonably be inferred that Richard considers the details about Mendel's life in the eighth paragraph (lines 61-71) to be:

J. disturbing, because such sketchy information is available about the rest of Mendel's life.

62D Prose Fiction Question 10

Based on the passage, “the other Mendel story” (line 78) is one that the narrator:

J. claims is not historically accurate.

67B Prose Fiction Line 12

What they proclaimed, these posters, was the existence of another world, of such modernity, such intensified energy and speed, of danger too.

67B Prose Fiction Line 25

In Mr. Garrett the power of that projected world was primary, and Jack found it undiminished in Gerald and Jamie as well, who would have been astonished to know that in Jack's eyes they were touched with distinction.

67B Prose Fiction Line 27

In Mr. Garrett the power of that projected world was primary, and Jack found it undiminished in Gerald and Jamie as well, who would have been astonished to know that in Jack's eyes they were touched with distinction.

67B Prose Fiction Line 36

Before long the tantalizing absence of this middle brother bad become a vital aspect of the Garretts as Jack saw them, and he too found himself looking forward to Arnold's arrival.

67B Prose Fiction Line 43

The quality he found in the others, of menace and tough allure, far from being intensified in this third member of the family, appeared to have missed him altogether.

67B Prose Fiction Line 44

The quality he found in the others, of menace and tough allure, far from being intensified in this third member of the family, appeared to have missed him altogether.

67B Prose Fiction Line 51

Not disdainfully, he was too easygoing to be disdainful, but as if he could no longer quite recall what it was like to be involved in adventures or crazes.

67B Prose Fiction Line 54

When he left school next year he would be out west permanently.

67B Prose Fiction Line 55

His most prized possessions were a pair of scuffed riding boots that sat side by side under his camp-bed and a belt of plaited kangaroo hide that cinched in the waist of his shorts with a good seven or eight inches to spare.

67B Prose Fiction Line 61

He did not boast of these things.

57B Prose Fiction Line 76

And I gloried in the particular pride of having done what I'd boasted I could.

67B Prose Fiction Line 80

In the belief that if he could get the tone right he might catch a glimpse, through the other boy's eyes, of what it was.

67B Prose Fiction Line 87

But there he came to a barrier that Arnold Garrett, he felt, had already crossed.

67B Prose Fiction Question 1

This passage is told from the point of view of:

A. an unidentified narrator who reveals the thoughts of all the characters.

B. an unidentified narrator who focuses on Jack's thoughts.

67B Prose Fiction Question 4

As they are described in the passage, Jamie and Gerald are:

F. virtually identical in their appearance, attitudes, and behavior.

67B Prose Fiction Question 4

As they are described in the passage, Jamie and Gerald are:

F. virtually identical in their appearance, attitudes, and behavior.

67B Prose Fiction Question 5

It can reasonably be inferred that lines 83-86 end in midsentence to emphasize all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Jack's frustration with his own inexperience.

67B Prose Fiction Question 5

It can reasonably be inferred that lines 83-86 end in midsentence to emphasize all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Jack's frustration with his own inexperience.

67B Prose Fiction Question 6

Compared to where Jack lives, the cities he sees in the movies strike him as primarily:

F. bleak.

67B Prose Fiction Question 9

When Jack says “Aout theere” (line 78), he is most likely in the process of:

B. attempting to imagine a compelling place.

67B Prose Fiction Question 10

The passage suggests that prior to meeting Arnold, Jack had most likely expected him to be:

F. meaner and tougher than Jamie and Gerald.

G. smaller and smarter than Jamie and Gerald.

H. dreamy and distant.

J. intelligent and kind.

57B Prose Fiction Line 6

At breakfast, I shivered and tried to hide it how strange that my parents didn't notice.

57B Prose Fiction Line 9

But sometime during the night we must have entered that world of mischance that parents so fear; with its history of catastrophes occurring in eye blinks when parental vigilance lapsed.

57B Prose Fiction Line 10

But sometime during the night we must have entered that world of mischance that parents so fear; with its history of catastrophes occurring in eye blinks when parental vigilance lapsed.

57B Prose Fiction Line 11

But sometime during the night we must have entered that world of mischance that parents so fear; with its history of catastrophes occurring in eye blinks when parental vigilance lapsed.

57B Prose Fiction Line 11

But sometime during the night we must have entered that world of mischance that parents so fear; with its history of catastrophes occurring in eye blinks when parental vigilance lapsed.

57B Prose Fiction Line 13

Briefly I wondered if maybe I did have polio, as my mother so dreaded, but I was still a child, and didn't know what was worth fearing.

57B Prose Fiction Line 16

The prospect of missing the trip scared me far more than polio.

57B Prose Fiction Line 24

Then they would blur and turn wavy.

57B Prose Fiction Line 29

Our classroom was in chaos.

57B Prose Fiction Line 52

And in that light-headed state I offered to take him to see it.

57B Prose Fiction Line 58

Yet now the idea of walking even the shortest distance exhausted me, and my plan seemed to demand impossible stamina—though less than it would have taken to shake my head no.

57B Prose Fiction Line 70

I just got colder, wobbly, and unsure.

57B Prose Fiction Question 4

The narrator states that she dimly heard her fever-voice tell Kenny, “Follow me” (lines 68-69).

57B Prose Fiction Question 5

The narrator considers her parents' behavior, as it is described in lines 6-11, to be:

A. habitually indifferent.

57B Prose Fiction Question 5

The narrator considers her parents' behavior, as it is described in lines 6-11, to be:

B. unusually lenient.

57B Prose Fiction Question 5

The narrator considers her parents' behavior, as it is described in lines 6-11, to be:

D. unusually inattentive.

57B Prose Fiction Question 6

Kenny's reaction to the Ghirlandaio painting can best be described as:

F. threatened; he feels the painting is ominous.

57B Prose Fiction Question 6

Kenny's reaction to the Ghirlandaio painting can best be described as:

G. awestruck; be reacts strongly to the painting.

57B Prose Fiction Question 6

Kenny's reaction to the Ghirlandaio painting can best be described as:

H. rational; he wants his comments on the painting to make sense.

57B Prose Fiction Question 6

Kenny's reaction to the Ghirlandaio painting can best be described as:

J. discreet; he doesn't want the teacher to hear him.

57B Prose Fiction Question 7

The narrator's “plan, ” mentioned in line 56, depends most critically upon:

A. the distraction caused by her classmates.

57B Prose Fiction Question 7

The narrator's “plan, ” mentioned in line 56, depends most critically upon:

C. Kenny' s proficiency as a student.

57B Prose Fiction Question 8

Discussing the resemblances between the old man in the Ghirlandaio painting and their teacher leaves Kenny and the narrator feeling:

F. exhilarated.

G. exhausted.

H. lethargic.

J. irritated.

57B Prose Fiction Question 8

Discussing the resemblances between the old man in the Ghirlandaio painting and their teacher leaves Kenny and the narrator feeling:

F. exhilarated.

57B Prose Fiction Question 8

Discussing the resemblances between the old man in the Ghirlandaio painting and their teacher leaves Kenny and the narrator feeling:

H. lethargic.

57B Prose Fiction Question 8

Discussing the resemblances between the old man in the Ghirlandaio painting and their teacher leaves Kenny and the narrator feeling:

J. irritated.

57B Prose Fiction Question 10

According to her account of the story, the narrator's biggest challenge was to:

G. broach the subject of Miss Haley's nose while speaking to Kenny.

56B Prose Fiction Line 4

It took her a long time to prepare her tea; but when ready it was set forth with as much grace as if she had been a veritable guest to her own self.

56B Prose Fiction Line 6

The little square table stood exactly in the center of the kitchen, and was covered with a starched linen cloth whose border pattern of flowers glistened.

56B Prose Fiction Line 19

Also a leaf or two of lettuce, which she cut up daintily.

56B Prose Fiction Line 21

She ate quite heartily, though in a delicate, pecking way.

56B Prose Fiction Line 23

It seemed almost surprising that any considerable bulk of the food should vanish.

56B Prose Fiction Line 43

She had barely folded the pink and white one with methodical haste and laid it in a table-drawer when the door opened and Joe Dagget entered.

56B Prose Fiction Line 53

He sat bolt-upright, toeing out his heavy feet squarely, glancing with a good-humored uneasiness around the room.

56B Prose Fiction Line 70

Dagget gave an awkward little laugh.

56B Prose Fiction Line 76

His large face was flushed.

56B Prose Fiction Line 88

If he could have known it, it would have increased his perplexity and uneasiness, although it would not have disturbed his loyalty in the least.

56B Prose Fiction Line 91

They were to be married in a month, after a singular courtship which had lasted for a matter of fifteen years.

56B Prose Fiction Question 1

The first paragraph suggests that Louisa's neighbors consider her to be:

A. someone to be emulated.

56B Prose Fiction Question 1

The first paragraph suggests that Louisa's neighbors consider her to be:

D. a rich eccentric.

56B Prose Fiction Question 2

It is reasonable to infer from the passage that Joe trips on Louisa's rug because he is usually reckless and careless.

56B Prose Fiction Question 2

It is reasonable to infer from the passage that Joe trips on Louisa's rug because he is always clumsy and weak.

56B Prose Fiction Question 3

The evidence in the passage most strongly supports an inference that when he is at Louisa's house Joe primarily feels:

B. amused.

56B Prose Fiction Question 5

The phrase “a veritable guest to her own self” (lines 3-4) most strongly suggests that Louisa:

D. is self-effacing and ill-at-ease in her own home.

56B Prose Fiction Question 6

The passage suggests that Louisa often wears more than one apron at a time because she is:

J. hypochondriacal.

56B Prose Fiction Question 9

The description in the passage suggests that Joe seems “to fill up the whole room” (line 45) because:

A. Louisa is timid and ill-at-ease.

55C Prose Fiction Line 1

The wind was a wild dark thing plucking at the trees outside, pushing at the door and chinks of the house, then dying down still as death before another rise and rush and plunge.

55C Prose Fiction Line 4

The wind was a wild dark thing plucking at the trees outside, pushing at the door and chinks of the house, then dying down still as death before another rise and rush and plunge.

55C Prose Fiction Line 9

She thought about the wind—like the great fine horse Papa had owned once, strong and willful with no bit or stirrup that could tame it.

55C Prose Fiction Line 38

No need for such wispy ways.

55C Prose Fiction Line 62

She was full of a strange confidence and beauty, and wept to herself behind the barn because she had so little confidence and was so lacking in prettiness.

55C Prose Fiction Line 94

Her voice was muffled.

55C Prose Fiction Line 94

I'm beseeching the Lord to hold you in the hollow of his hand.

55C Prose Fiction Question 4

As it is used in line 31, the phrase “determined to be stingy with her words” most nearly means that Lydia wants to be:

G. sarcastic.

55C Prose Fiction Question 7

We may reasonably infer from details in the passage that the wind, Papa's horse, and Lydia are alike in that they are all:

D. disciplined and stubborn.

55C Prose Fiction Question 8

Lines 57-65 indicate that Lydia's feelings about herself are best described as:

G. erratic.

59F Prose Fiction Line 2

These are sturdy crutches, just the right size.

59F Prose Fiction Line 16

We Bryants are a family of able and clever people, industrious, intelligent, determined, and of good will.

59F Prose Fiction Line 38

I am not ungrateful, not trying to be hateful, not in my opinion being overly fastidious.

59F Prose Fiction Line 51

I commence planning with enthusiasm.

59F Prose Fiction Line 66

Did you know that Bryant built his shelves so they tilt?

59F Prose Fiction Line 80

Diminished excellence is a condition of the world and therefore never an occasion for sorrow, whereas flawed competence comes out of character and therefore is frequently the reason for the bowed head, the furrowed brow.

59F Prose Fiction Line 86

The screw-up was there all along, but in this case I am relieved to find it.

59F Prose Fiction Question 3

Each of the three projects described in the passage reveals:

A. the increasing antagonism between the grandfather and grandson.

59F Prose Fiction Question 4

The boy's approach to the task of converting the tennis court to a basketball court can best be described as:

F. reluctant until his grandfather's plans inspire him.

59F Prose Fiction Question 4

The boy's approach to the task of converting the tennis court to a basketball court can best be described as:

I. apprehensive until he discovers his error is not a devastating one.

59F Prose Fiction Question 8

It can most reasonably be inferred from the sixth paragraph (lines 36-46) that the statement that the basketball hoops “can't be made smaller” (line 40) is:

G. an opinion stated by the grandfather indignantly.

59F Prose Fiction Question 10

In the last paragraph, a comparison is made between “diminished excellence” and “flawed competence.” From the narrator's point of view, the conditions are different because the one is:H. inherent in the environment while the other is inherent in the individual.

61F Prose Fiction Line 4

Ama's about the same age as my mother, and they are cousins in a roundabout way, but Mama calls her that out of respect for what she knows and who she is.

61F Prose Fiction Line 7

Mama respects her and is jealous.

61F Prose Fiction Line 64

It's not that she's moody.

61F Prose Fiction Line 86

I think it's courage more than foolishness that Ama has, and besides, sometimes I feel a longing for the old ways she lives by.

61F Prose Fiction Question 2

If the last paragraph were omitted from the passage, the reader would not know that.

61F Prose Fiction Question 3

It can most reasonably be inferred from the passage that the narrator's mother is jealous of Ama because Ama:

D. feels nothing but contempt for the narrator's mother, even though the narrator's mother admires her.

61F Prose Fiction Question 5

The main purpose of the scene depicted in lines 20-34 is to:

D. convey how intimidated the narrator's uncles were by Ama.

61F Prose Fiction Question 7

Which of the following best describes what the ninth paragraph (lines 55-72) reveals about Ama's character?

D. She hopes the narrator will begin to see her as a substitute mother.

61C Prose Fiction Line 2

The only thing I had anticipated at the start of the semester.

61C Prose Fiction Line 24

I had had to resist the temptation to climb down into the yard and water the flowers the old lady had taken such good care of.

61C Prose Fiction Line 45

Once school started I looked for him in all my classes, but P. S. 13 was a huge place and it took me days and many discreet questions to discover Eugene.

61C Prose Fiction Line 52

On the way home after school one day when I decided to approach him directly, though my

stomach was doing somersaults.

61C Prose Fiction Line 53

I was ready for rejection, snobbery, the worst.

61C Prose Fiction Question 10

Which of the following best describes the narrator's feelings about secretly observing Eugene at his home?

G. Enjoyment mixed with guilt.

61C Prose Fiction Question 10

Which of the following best describes the narrator's feelings about secretly observing Eugene at his home?

F. Joy tinged with suspicion.

61B Prose Fiction Line 12

No one was around to help her; she dropped the ice cream she was carrying (something that made a deep impression on my brother and me) and managed to cling to the edge and hoist herself out of the hole.

61B Prose Fiction Line 14

The image of the little girl—who was to become my mother—hanging in perilous darkness was one that haunted me; sometimes it showed up in my dreams.

61B Prose Fiction Line 15

The image of the little girl—who was to become my mother—hanging in perilous darkness was one that haunted me; sometimes it showed up in my dreams.

61B Prose Fiction Line 16

Perhaps her near-fatal tumble was responsible for my mother's lasting attraction to the bizarre side of life.

61B Prose Fiction Line 17

Perhaps her near-fatal tumble was responsible for my mother's lasting attraction to the bizarre side of life.

61B Prose Fiction Line 18

Beneath a sometimes prudish exterior, she quivered with excitement in the same way her children did over newspaper accounts of trunk murders, foreign earthquakes, graves hidden in the New Jersey pine barrens.

61B Prose Fiction Line 32

At home Mama was a housekeeper in the grand old style that disdains convenience, worships thrift, and condones extravagance only in the form of massive Sunday dinners, which, like acts of God, leave family members stunned and reeling.

61B Prose Fiction Line 33

At home Mama was a housekeeper in the grand old style that disdains convenience, worships thrift, and condones extravagance only in the form of massive Sunday dinners, which, like acts of God, leave family members stunned and reeling.

61B Prose Fiction Line 48

The instruments my mother used were a motley assemblage of blackened cast-iron pots,rusty-handled beaters, graters, strainers, and an array of mixing bowls that included the cheapest plastic variety as well as tall, archaic-looking stoneware tubs inherited from my grandmother, who had herself been a legendary cook.

61B Prose Fiction Line 54

Mama guarded these ugly tools with jealous solicitude, suspicious of any new introductions, and she moved in her kitchen with the modest agility of a master craftsperson.

61B Prose Fiction Line 56

Mama guarded these ugly tools with jealous solicitude, suspicious of any new introductions, and she moved in her kitchen with the modest agility of a master craftsperson.

61B Prose Fiction Line 58

Like any genuine passion, her love of food embraced every aspect of the subject.

61B Prose Fiction Line 64

Matthew and I learned from her a sort of culinary history of her side of the family.

61B Prose Fiction Line 68

Grandma Renfrew loved to drink clabbered milk, and was so insistent about the purity of food that once when Aunt Lily had served her margarine instead of butter, she had refused to eat at Lily's table for a year.

61B Prose Fiction Line 87

She would exclaim as Matthew and I groaned, “The best part of the cow! ”

61B Prose Fiction Question 5

The information about the narrator's grandparents in lines 63-71 primarily serves to reveal about these characters their:

A. preoccupation with and inflexibility about certain kinds of food.

61B Prose Fiction Question 6

Lines 75-78 suggest that the pleasure the narrator's mother took in the raw materials that became meals resulted from her appreciation for:

G. the precision and the whimsy produced by nature.

61B Prose Fiction Question 8

It can reasonably be inferred that the author uses italics in line 30 to emphasize that the narrator's mother feels all of the following emotions.

61B Prose Fiction Question 9

It can most reasonably be inferred from lines 39-42 that the narrator believes her mother's cooking to be:

A. experimental and undesirable.

61B Prose Fiction Question 9

It can most reasonably be inferred from lines 39-42 that the narrator believes her mother's cooking to be:

G. inappropriate for a child's diet.

72C Prose Fiction Line 3

When you grow up, as I did, in a great city, during what just happens to be its golden age, you think of it as eternal.

72C Prose Fiction Line 4

Always was there, always will be. The grandeur of the metropolis creates the illusion of permanence.

72C Prose Fiction Line 13

I actually grew up believing Art Deco to be the “Bombay style, ” a local invention, its name derived, in all probability, from the imperative of the verb “to see.”

72C Prose Fiction Line 24

In reality that Bombay was almost brand-new when I knew it; what's more, my parents' construction firm of Merchant & Merchant had been prominent in its making.

72C Prose Fiction Line 26

In the ten years before my own coming into the world, the city had been a gigantic building site.

72C Prose Fiction Line 44

For of course construction work never stops completely, and supervising such work was Ameer's particular genius.

72C Prose Fiction Line 59

The early city's relics filled his imagination as well as his photo albums.

72C Prose Fiction Line 82

He clarified with a rare flash of irritation.

72C Prose Fiction Line 87

I, his photographer son, set out to prove him wrong, to show that a camera can see beyond the surface, beyond the trappings of the actual, and penetrate to its flesh and heart.

72C Prose Fiction Question 4

In lines 32-43, the narrator uses which of the following literary devices to describe Bombay?

F. Alliteration.

72C Prose Fiction Question 4

In lines 32-43, the narrator uses which of the following literary devices to describe Bombay?

J. simile.

72C Prose Fiction Question 6

As it is used in line 9,the word sweep most nearly means:

F. overwhelming victory.

60E Prose Fiction Line 23

She watched as they left behind the neat, compact frame houses and hollow storage buildings.

60E Prose Fiction Line 25

She was going back to piece together their family story of departure and return.

60E Prose Fiction Line 26

She saw it all from the inside out, as native and exile, woman and child.

60E Prose Fiction Line 34

She had tried to demonstrate a persistent bond with the help of words put together by experts, choosing for each birthday and holiday an oversized greeting card, depending on its ornate script and polished rhyme to express what she had never been able to say.

60E Prose Fiction Line 46

Though she hadn't known what, specifically, to make of any of them, she knew their appearance said something about the habit of love.

60E Prose Fiction Line 66

What Sunday said that night was condemnation of a place, but Delta absorbed it all.

60E Prose Fiction Line 69

Intoxicated with saying what had long been felt, they both spoke freely and all barriers fell.

60E Prose Fiction Line 72

Most of the things Sunday said had not surprised Delta, but one indictment had left her openmouthed.

60E Prose Fiction Line 75

Delta had laughed callously at the accusation, for she knew, though she couldn't have said it, that for most of her life she had seen little else.

60E Prose Fiction Line 89

Sunday had gathered and packed her things in a wild, tearful stupor of regret and relief, while Delta cried herself to sleep with bitter remorse.

60E Prose Fiction Line 91

Sunday had gathered and packed her things in a wild, tearful stupor of regret and relief, while Delta cried herself to sleep with bitter remorse.

60E Prose Fiction Question 1

Which of the following statements offers the best short summary of this passage?

C. Two sisters contemplate their relationship to each other and to their hometown just prior to a reunion between them.

60E Prose Fiction Question 2

The main conflict in this passage could best be described as:

H. the tension between two sisters, Delta and Sunday, who have differing views of the world.

60E Prose Fiction Question 2

The main conflict in this passage could best be described as:

J. the hostility between two sisters, Delta and Sunday, each of whom wants control over the other.

60E Prose Fiction Question 5

In the passage Sunday defines herself as a painter and someone who has broken free of childhood constraints, while Delta tends to define herself as:

D. someone who is trying to become more worldly.

60E Prose Fiction Question 8

According to the passage, how did Delta interpret the paintings on paper and the block prints that Sunday sent to her?

J. She believed they were proof that Sunday was a misfit.

60E Prose Fiction Question 10

In the context of lines 79-85,the word smallness(line 84)most nearly means:

H. diminutive size

63C Prose Fiction Line 1

Nine mysterious and crucial years separated April's birth from Danny's.

63C Prose Fiction Line 5

The difference never seemed so vast, so insurmountable, as it did that magical year, for as they got older, nine years became less of a gulf and more of a bridge.

63C Prose Fiction Line 14

They shared with each other elaborate and entrenched rituals, masses of common history, so much that in his early childhood tie was always having to ask questions.

63C Prose Fiction Line 15

They shared with each other elaborate and entrenched rituals, masses of common history, so much that in his early childhood tie was always having to ask questions.

63C Prose Fiction Line 33

There were hundreds of them—ten or twenty taken on a single day, sometimes, marked and dated and captioned, as if Louise and Nat had been under some sort of picture-taking enchantment, brought on by the miracle of first birth.

63C Prose Fiction Line 40

There was his mother's slightly upturned lip, her blazing dark eyes.

63C Prose Fiction Question 1

The mood of this passage can best be described as:

A. jubilant.

63C Prose Fiction Question 3

In the second paragraph (lines 13-45), the narrator primarily emphasizes Danny's sense of:

A. estrangement from his mother.

63C Prose Fiction Question 3

In the second paragraph (lines 13-45), the narrator primarily emphasizes Danny's sense of:

C. anxiety about the cousins and grandparents that he has never met.

63C Prose Fiction Question 5

The passage suggests that as Danny grew older, April became more:

D. vital to his success.

63E Prose Fiction Line 10

Not that we need distractions; we sit quietly, buckling our seat belts—when the sign says to.

63E Prose Fiction Line 49

Marty and I get very tan, and Nai-nai scolds us.

63E Prose Fiction Line 53

When we first got here we were picky, polite.

63E Prose Fiction Question 1

The narrator's use of sensory details, such as the color of the curtains and the smell of the station wagon, most strongly suggests that:

A. she is too young to comprehend her world in anything but sensory images.

63E Prose Fiction Question 2

It can reasonably be inferred from the passage that the narrator views the children who live on Nai-nai's street as:

G. friends who often vocalize what intrigues them, about the ocean's beautiful appearance.

63E Prose Fiction Question 3

As depicted in the eighth and ninth paragraphs (lines 49-61), the relationship between the girls and their grandmother is best described by which of the following statements?

D. The grandmother, though loving, is rigid, about what she considers correct.

63E Prose Fiction Question 10

It can most reasonably be inferred from the passage that the narrator's father:

G. becomes distressed when Marty cries before the trip.

63F Prose Fiction Line 7

If there was talk, it was quiet conjecture about the indiscretions of our friends and neighbors.

63F Prose Fiction Line 7

If there was talk, it was quiet conjecture about the indiscretions of our friends and neighbors.

63F Prose Fiction Line 16

This we called decorum, and we lived securely under its warm protection.

63F Prose Fiction Line 26

My initial reluctance to accede to their request is a matter of personal habit, I suppose.

63F Prose Fiction Line 38

My hearing is defective, my bones seem to lie upon each other like dry kindling, my skin tails away in slack little pinches of flesh.

63F Prose Fiction Line 51

The Foundation promises me that it will be some time before the history of the founding of the Community can be completely collated and that it has no plans to publish it.

63F Prose Fiction Line 67

Whether this air is entirely salutary, whether the old must of chests, of closets, bell jars, and horsehair sofas is not a better climate for the storage of the private life, I do not know.

63F Prose Fiction Line 83

What you have managed to remember is perhaps only partial and personal, biased truth.

63F Prose Fiction Line 87

But, at the last, I think, the historian's view always superimposes itself upon history.

63F Prose Fiction Question 2

The second paragraph (lines 5-17) primarily emphasizes an earlier era's:

G. lack of intimacy.

63F Prose Fiction Question 3

The narrator makes clear that the Foundation is now interested in an account of her and Robert's lives because:

A. Robert's fame has grown substantially since his death.

63F Prose Fiction Question 3

The narrator makes clear that the Foundation is now interested in an account of her and Robert's lives, because:

D. it could help solicit funds needed to revive the Community.

63F Prose Fiction Question 5

When the narrator talks about being “left alone with what was” (line 61), she most nearly means that she:

D. thinks outliving one's time can be exhilarating but sometimes lonely.

63F Prose Fiction Question 8

It can most reasonably be inferred that, in her youth and into her middle years, the narrator found the idea of decorum:

G. pretentious.

63F Prose Fiction Question 9

As it is used in line 29, the phrase decent age most nearly refers to:

B. a time long past that embraced propriety.

63D Prose Fiction Line 4

When I pick up my father and his girlfriend at Los Angeles International Airport he stops short before embracing me, blinks repeatedly in disbelief, smiles or smirks crookedly and tentatively, judging me, sizing me up through his trademark horn-rimmed glasses and ultraconservative mud-brown eyes, which cut immediately to the wiry dreadlocks bouncing around my forehead, and his glare that screams What kind of weird thing you gone and done to yourself this time?

63D Prose Fiction Line 4

When I pick up my father and his girlfriend at Los Angeles International Airport he stops Short before embracing me, blinks repeatedly in disbelief, smiles or smirks crookedly and tentatively, judging me, sizing me up through his trademark horn-rimmed glasses and ultraconservative mud-brown eyes, which cut immediately to the wiry dreadlocks bouncing around my forehead, and his glare that screams What kind of weird thing you gone and done to yourself this time?

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His glare that screams What kind of weird thing you gone and done to yourself this time? disturbingly 10 familiar yet intimidating and benevolent at the same time, reduces me, as it most often does despite my thirty something years, to the little tyke in dungarees and hightop sneakers I once was, in dire need of my father's love and approval.

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For weeks I was preoccupied with and vexed myself over what my father and I would possibly talk about for seven days and seven nights, constantly being together and sharing each meal, sleeping in the same house day in, day out, after our years of estrangement sealed by an impromptu reconciliation.

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For weeks I was preoccupied with and vexed myself over what my father and I would possibly talk about for seven days and seven nights, constantly being together and sharing each meal, sleeping in the same house day in, day out, after our years of estrangement sealed by an impromptu reconciliation.

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But now that he's here and we move toward one another, I suddenly acknowledge that seven days might not be sufficient time to encompass all that we have to say to each other.

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But now that he's here and we move toward one another, I suddenly acknowledge that seven days might not be sufficient time to encompass all that we have to say to each other.

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My father stands off to the side, nervously awaiting his turn, large, rugged, callused hands thrust deep inside his pants pockets, as he psyches himself up for a fleeting, ephemeral moment of intimacy with another adult male.

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My father stands off to the side, nervously awaiting his turn, large, rugged, callused hands thrust deep inside his pants pockets, as he psyches himself up for a fleeting, ephemeral moment of intimacy with another adult male.

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My father leans over and switches on the radio, predictably, frantically searching the dial for the local jazz station.

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My father, jazz elitist and purist, f irmly and unequivocally and inexorably theorizes that the legendary horn blower has done absolutely nothing musically worthwhile recently.

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My father, jazz elitist and purist, firmly and unequivocally and inexorably theorizes that the legendary horn blower has done absolutely nothing musically worthwhile recently.

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Studying my father at red lights and through intermittent glances that punctuate our conversation, I realize, understand, and accept, as I never have before, that he is indeed aging.

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Still remarkably handsome, even dashing for his middle age, his silky hair, short and black and wavy and parted at the side as it was the day he married my mother at age twenty, is his sole physical attribute that remains timeless.

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Even my mother would look at me, shake her head, smile as she hmmed to herself at the alleged stark resemblance I could never see.

63D Prose Fiction Question 2

As revealed in the passage, the father is best described as:

G. opinionated and flamboyant.

63D Prose Fiction Question 3

The author implies the emotional state of the characters primarily through:

B. an objective and omniscient narrator.

63D Prose Fiction Question 6

The interactions between the narrator's father and the narrator in lines 36-41 reveal a relationship that is best described as one that:

H. has been restored to its former affectionate state that both remember from the past.

63D Prose Fiction Question 9

As it is used in line 31,the word foreign most nearly means:

B. incompatible.

63D Prose Fiction Question 10

The narrator considers his father's assessments of the newer jazz works of Miles Davis to be:

A. strong and hasty.

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The woman never dreams and this makes her intensely miserable.

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She stays at the threshold, and the door is always closed, refusing her entrance.

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Objects lose their functionality in dreams in order to become obstacles, or they have their own laws that we don't know anything about.

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She thinks that the woman who does not dream is the enemy of the waking woman because she robs her of parts of herself, takes away the wild excitement of revelation when we think we have discovered something that we didn't know before or that we had forgotten.

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When we sleep we have two pairs of eyes: the more superficial eyes, which are accustomed to seeing only the appearance of things and of dealing with light, and dream's eyes.

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To tell dreams is one of the most difficult arts; perhaps only author Franz Kaf ka was able to do so without spoiling their mystery, trivializing their symbols or making them rational.

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To tell dreams is one of the most difficult arts; perhaps only author Franz Kafka was able to do so without spoiling their mystery, trivializing their symbols or making them rational.

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To tell dreams is one of the most difficult arts; perhaps only author Franz Kaf ka was able to do so without spoiling their mystery, trivializing their symbols or making them rational.

64E Prose Fiction Question 2

Based on the passage, which of the following statements best describes the overall attitudes of the narrator and the woman?

G. The woman is bitter and resentful, while the narrator is detached and uninterested.

64E Prose Fiction Question 2

Based on the passage, which of the following statements best describes the overall attitudes of the narrator and the woman?

G. The woman is bitter and resentful, while the narrator is detached and uninterested.

64E Prose Fiction Question 4

Throughout the passage, the image of the door is used primarily as a metaphor for the boundary between:

F. alertness and fatigue.

64E Prose Fiction Question 8

Based on the narrator's account, the woman's approach to dreaming the narrator's dreams is best described as:

G. enthusiastic and playful.

64E Prose Fiction Question 9

As it is used in line 58,the word humor most nearly means:B. whim.

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They are so used to me that they know my schedule, he muttered.

65C Prose Fiction Question 1

The first seven paragraphs (lines 1-33) establish all of the following about Santiago EXCEPT that he:

B. has learned to be resourceful as a shepherd.

65C Prose Fiction Question 5

According to the passage, prior to Santiago's arrival, the abandoned church features all of the following EXCEPT:

C. a dilapidated roof.

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The rice and beef were so hot that stirring the egg with the other ingredients cooked it.

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Like the old and no-longer-noble Victorian structures in the Handle, the structures of Chinatown were obtuse and complicated.

65E Prose Fiction Question 3

Based on the narrator's characterization, Mr. Hom would best be described as:

B. energetic, committed, and industrious.

65E Prose Fiction Question 3

Based on the narrator's characterization, Mr. Hom would best be described as:

C. calm, serious, and courteous.

65E Prose Fiction Question 3

Based on the narrator's characterization, Mr. Horn would best be described as:

D. sarcastic, jovial, and reckless.

65E Prose Fiction Question 7

The statement in lines 30-33 most strongly suggests that the people who emigrated to the Handle and Chinatown felt that their customs:

B. would most likely not help invigorate their new neighborhoods.

65D Prose Fiction Question 3

The narrator's two references to a camera's lens cap (lines 27 and 42) primarily serve to suggest her:

D. growing eagerness to use a camera to tell stories.

65D Prose Fiction Question 4

Viewed in the context of the passage, Martha's smirk (line 37) most likely reflects a feeling of:

F. mild weariness.

65D Prose Fiction Question 5

As presented by the participants, the initial meeting between Ola and Martha can best be described as:

A. a misunderstanding that escalates into harsh words until the two agree to keep their distance from each other.

65D Prose Fiction Question 6

Martha clearly recommends that the narrator use a camera in which of the following ways?

H. Intuitively.

65D Prose Fiction Question 8

In terms of the development of the narrator as a character, the last paragraph primarily serves to:

J. undermine the reliability of her account.

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The water slowly inundated the edge of the sand, licked at his ribs like a puppy.

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The fierce flapping of the desperate fish caught inside.

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Under these sounds, a worshipful silence.

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The cadence of the waves until now had sounded like hesitant footsteps, reluctant to destroy the dawn's silence, gently rattling the shells left like night gifts on the shore.

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In that first meeting with it, Khiem had come face to face with something invisible and magnificent that stood outside of time.

66C Prose Fiction Question 1

The passage can best be described as a fictional account of one man's experiences with the sea that:

D. offers concrete and specific details about the elements of the sea to demonstrate that the sea is not as mysterious as it may sometimes seem.

66C Prose Fiction Question 4

Which of the following statements best expresses how Khiem feels during his experience at the sea as described in lines 1-67?

F. Overwhelmed by the surrounding gloom.

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In my sleeping compartment, watching the night countryside, so much world rolls by my window.

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But now I am awake, keeping my vigil over the Midwest's pastoral kingdom.

67C Prose Fiction Question 3

The first three paragraphs (lines 1-21) establish all of the following about the narrator EXCEPT that she is:

D. observant of the landscape.

67C Prose Fiction Question 10

According to the passage, news reports attributed the cosmonaut's knees buckling to:

F. his gratitude at being back on Earth.

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His father had taken him to Tokyo by train and together they walked to the theater in a steady downpour.

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They climbed the long set of stairs to their row, careful not to look down into the dizzying void beneath them.

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Tiny people, insects, really, slipped out from behind the curtains, opened their mouths, and with their voices gilded the walls with their yearning, their grief, their boundless love.

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Tiny people, insects, really, slipped out from behind the curtains, opened their mouths, and with their voices gilded the walls with their yearning, their grief, their boundless love.

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He knew that without opera, part of himself would have vanished altogether.

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Kiyomi found the pictures of sopranos irritating.

71C Prose Fiction Question 3

Which of the following statements best characterizes Kiyomi's relationship with her father, as it is presented in the passage?

B. She shares his fondness for opera.

71C Prose Fiction Question 9

The statement “Such love breeds loyalty, and Mr. Hosokawa was a loyal man” (lines 47-48) most directly refers to the fact that Mr. Hosokawa:

B. retained his appreciation for his favorite opera composers and singers.

71C Prose Fiction Question 9

The statement “Such love breeds loyalty, and Mr. Hosokawa was a loyal man” (lines 47-48) most directly refers to the fact that Mr. Hosokawa:

D. listened exclusively to the recordings of Callas for several years.

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This passage uses elements of a literary genre called magic realism to describe a mysterious thin line that is simultaneously real and imaginary.

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Perhaps it had been the industriousness of the African bees, their furry feet dusted heavily in yellow pollen, that had quickly mated the flower to its future, producing this aberrant orange—not to be picked, not expected, and probably not very sweet.

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In the days when the orange was a blossom of soft petals, its fragrance surprised her.

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The perfume could only be emanating from that curious flower.

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She came often then to secure the whiff that tingled her deep memory.

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As expected, the orange did not grow to be very big or seem very succulent, but it did begin to hang rather heavily.

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And when the salty wind blew west from the sea rocking it back and forth like a small cradle, the curious line—now running through the growing orange—rocked back and forth with it like a lullaby.

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And when the salty wind blew west from the sea rocking it back and forth like a small cradle, the curious line—now running through the growing orange—rocked back and forth with it like a lullaby.

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Rafaela and her son Sol walked hand in hand past the orange tree, careful not to disturb the lizards and beetles waiting breathlessly beneath scattered leaves and brush.

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It was a little before noon, and the sun was particularly bright and oppressive that day.

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She might have also noticed the lunar signs in the corner of the calendar and the small print that said summer solstice.

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There was a sudden gust of tepid wind, and from the corner of her eye, she thought she saw the line's razor shadow dip away, south.

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She did not realize that that the orange had fallen irresistibly from a height of two meters, rolling in dusty turbulence down a small slope, under the barbed-wire fence, and just beyond the frontiers of the property to a neutral place between ownership and the highway.

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She did not realize that that the orange had fallen irresistibly from a height of two meters, rolling in dusty turbulence down a small slope, under the barbed-wire fence, and just beyond the frontiers of the property to a neutral place between ownership and the highway.

71H Prose Fiction Question 4

The main purpose of the fifth paragraph (lines 49-60) is to:

F. describe how the weather affects even the smallest creatures and add to the passage's overall sense of frenzied chaos.

71H Prose Fiction Question 6

The passage indicates that only one of the tree's flowers produced an orange because the:

G. other flowers wilted and shriveled from a sudden dry period.

71H Prose Fiction Question 9

As it is used in line 39,the word secure most nearly means:

D. obtain.