Student Name: *Student ID: *1.A prominent stylistic characteristic of the narrator’s discussion of the awaited culprit’s possible identity: "But in that early... made venerable and awful (lines 9-21) ishyperboleparallel constructionmetaphorsyllogistic reasoningallegory2.In the second paragraph, the speaker provides a contrast to the assembled women by using which descriptive phrase?“wedging their not insubstantial persons” (line 31)“a coarser fibre in those wives and maidens” (line 33)“a more delicate and briefer beauty” (line 36)“with a moral diet not a whit more refined” (line 41)“in respect to its purport or its volume of tone” (line 47)3.The antecedent of “its” in line 47 is“speech” (line 46)“matrons” (line 46)“them” (line 46)“present day” (line 47)“respect” (line 47)4.As used in line 47, “purport” meanspurposeappearancemeaningtransportallegation5.The narrator seems to feel that the women of the eraare harsher in their judgments than are the ruling menare overly subservient to menare without exception bitter-temperedare more refined than the “man-like” Elizabeth”are concerned about Antinomians6.What is the primary function of the rhetorical questions used in the conversation in lines 48-71 (“Goodwives. . . Mistress Prynne herself”)?They call into question the motives of the magistrates.They emphasize the low social status of women in that society.They represent a digression from the serious tone of the description.They express the confusion of the spectators regarding the proceedings.They serve to illustrate dissatisfaction with the punishment.7.The words of the man in the crowd, “Mercy on us . . . hardest word yet!” (lines 72-74) serve the purpose ofpointing out the moral deficiencies of the women of the eraexplaining the magistrates’ choice of Hester’s sentenceexposing the underlying implication of the “goodwife’s” wordscriticizing those who would question authoritycomparing virtuous women to those who fear the gallows8.In lines 15-18, the authorpresents a defense against a common criticism of the wild pigeonimplies a contrast between the wild pigeon and other birdsexplains why wild pigeons are well suited to survival in severe weathermakes an assertion that he will support throughout the rest of the essaysuggests that the migration patterns of the wild pigeon are haphazard9.The word “mast,” as it is used in line 22, is best understood to meana means of transportationa specific group of birdsa tree where birds roosta type of foodfavorable weather10.In the paragraph beginning in line 24, the author determines the average speed of the migrating birds by the use ofan analogyinductive reasoningdeductive reasoningcircular reasoninga controlled experiment11.In the sentence beginning in line 35, the author emphasizes the value of the birds’ keen sense of vision through the use ofparallel structureperiodic structureidiomatic dictionan omniscient point of viewhyperbolic language12.The simile in line 47 is particularly effective because itimplies that the birds are almost humanechoes a simile used earlier in the essayemphasizes the observer’s point of viewis surprising to the readeris a saying that is familiar to most readers13.The primary function of the paragraph beginning in line 89 is toinvite a comparison between two types of birdsdescribe an unusual phenomenonexplain what causes the wild pigeons’ behaviorhighlight the danger posed by predatory birdsencourage the reader to observe birds in the wild14.The paragraph beginning in line 98 suggests that the author is bothskeptical and religiousimpressed and perplexedscholarly and naïveadmiring and disappointedobjective and reverent15.From line 124, the reader can infer that a “gleaner” is someone whowatches birdsplows a fieldseeks knowledgegathers foodplants seeds16.In this passage, when the author refers to the killing of wild pigeons, his tone could best bedispassionateoutragedelegiacdefensivesardonic17.Which of the following best reflects the writer’s exigence in this passage?“our chemical attack is weakening the defenses inherent in the environment itself, defenses designed to keep the various species in check” (lines 13-15)“new problems had arisen as insects once present only in insignificant numbers had increased to the status of serious pests” (lines 19-20)“Two critically important facts have been overlooked in designing the modern insect control programs” (lines 25-26)“The fecundity of many forms of life is almost beyond our power to imagine” (lines 35-36)“No one knows how many species of insects inhabit the earth because so many are yet to be identified” (lines 49-50)18.The writer wants to add a sentence to the beginning of the third paragraph to serve as a transition from the second paragraph. Which of the following best achieves that purpose?Briejèr is not the only scientist who feels this way.Today, nothing is impossible in the field of biology.The “impossible” is now happening on two broad fronts.Solving scientific mysteries is something all scientists hope to do.“Impossibility” is a word commonly rejected by the scientific world.19.The writer adds credibility to her thesis by using all of the following EXCEPTfacts and statisticsquotes from noted authoritiesscientific jargon and explanationsstatements followed by refutationsdescriptions of personal experiences20.Initially, the intended audience for Silent Spring most probably wasenvironmentalists living in rural areaspeople involved in agriculture who used insecticidescitizens worried about insects overrunning their homesgovernment officials concerned with the nation’s agriculturebiologists and other scientists concerned about decreasing insect populations21.The author reaches the conclusion thatinsects eventually will become extinctinsect control should be left to biologists and other scientistsnature’s controls are the most effective means of insect controlonly scientists understand the importance of insects to the environmentenvironmental radicals need to be booted from the scientific community22.The writer wants to add a phrase at the beginning of the sentence on line 45 (reproduced below) to set up the sentence as a concluding statement. Thomas Huxley a century ago calculated that a single female aphis (which has the curious power of reproducing without mating) could produce progeny in a single year’s time whose total weight would equal that of the inhabitants of the Chinese empire of his day. Which of the following choices best accomplishes this goal?Thus,Similarly,By contrast,Furthermore,For example,23.Which of the following best describes the passage’s tone?serious and agitateddignified and stridenturgent and instructivehysterical and dismissivedetached and melancholic24.The author’s attitude toward first-hand visual observation is that itis more reliable than experimentationis a vital antidote to our fast-paced modern livescan play a vital role in helping us understand the laws of naturecan be deceptive if not paired with fundamental scientific knowledgeis possible only for those fortunate enough to have access to certain environments25.The author’s primary purpose in this passage is toinform the reader about insect control programsencourage readers to appreciate the beauties of naturecontrast theoretical knowledge and practical experiencesupport a thesis she presents at the beginning of the passagesuggest several possible causes for a disturbing phenomenon26.The combined effect of the imperatives and rhetorical questions used in Flavius’s first words (lines 1-5) is to suggest that he sees his position in relation to the commoners as that ofcommanderinvestigatorrepresentativeemployercomrade27.The dominant literary device in the cobbler’s exchange with Flavius and Marullus ispunsaphorismsalliterationeuphemismanachronisms28.The rhetorical questions used in lines 30-32 serve primarily tosuggest a definition for successchallenge the nature of Caesar’s victoryinquire about the commoners’ perspectivegather specific informationreveal Marullus’s military background29.Marullus’s monologue reveals that he believes the behavior of the commoners to be primarilysubmissivemaliciousself-protectingcapriciousgreedy30.Flavius’s remarks to the commoners in lines 54-58 appeal to theirhumanityemotionsethicslogicclass status31.The phrase “fly an ordinary pitch” as it is used by Flavius in line 72 serves to suggest that Julius Caesar needs to bedefiedassistedguidedhumiliatedhumbled32.Flavius and Marullus’s attitude toward the commoners could best be described assuperciliouscontriteseriousfractioussolicitous33.From the passage as a whole, the reader can infer thatFlavius and Marullus belong to the upper classthe cobbler is concerned about Marullus and Flavius’s healththe commoners are highly emotional and weep easilyall of Rome supports Caesar because of his triumphsFlavius and Marullus were personal friends of Pompey34.The tone of the first paragraph could best be described asrancorousdespairingdispassionatebombasticfrantic35.The narrator most likely exclaims to the woman “‘Please, don’t throw any more coins!’” because he believes the woman isuncaringcalculatingmaliciousmisguidedpretentious36.In the section beginning “In the wagon,” which of the following LEAST shows the dehumanization of the train’s “cargo”?the animal imagery employed by the narratorthe old man’s pleading with his sonthe behavior of the spectatorsthe description of the fight over a specific piece of breadthe narrator’s report of the response to a death37.[Chose the most complete answer.] The narrator makes the incident between the old man and his son more vivid by includingvigorous verbsvigorous verbs and his own reactions to the eventsvigorous verbs and imagery of light and darknessimagery of light and darkness and his own reactions to the eventsvigorous verbs, imagery of light and darkness, and his own reactions to the events38.The primary effect of the sentence “I was sixteen” is tounderscore how long the narrator has been a prisonerexplain why the narrator is not as weak as the other prisonersremind the reader that this is an eyewitness accountlink the narrator to the boy whose father calls him “Meir”make the impact of the narrative even more appalling39.In the four sentences beginning “His son had been taken from him” and ending “reached the end,” each sentence, in relation to the sentence that precedes it, serves tointensify itreiterate itqualify itcontradict ittemper it40.The narrator’s description of the prisoners on the last day of their journey presents them asresignedbestialunifieddefianthopeless41.The sentence “All boundaries had been crossed” implies that the prisoners had reached the end of all of the following EXCEPT theirtrain journeyphysical staminaphysical livesability to hopeself-restraint42.In context, the words “the records stated” (line 12) serve tocontradict the experts’ conclusionsidentify the source of historical informationrestate the reasons for the investigation of the kouros’s provenanceelaborate on the degree to which the Getty tried to authenticate the kourosillustrate one of the reasons for the Getty’s belief in the kouros’s authenticity43.Stanley Margolis’ conclusion that “the statue was old” (line 23) was based oncircular reasoninginductive reasoningdeductive reasoningtrial and error experimentationconsultation with other authorities44.The three people discussed in the paragraph beginning in line 27 are similar in their qualification levels and theirresponses to the statuebackgrounds as evaluatorslack of interest in others’ opinionsadmiration for the statue’s artistic qualitiesdisdain for conclusions drawn by previous experts45.The experts’ evaluations of the kouros described in lines 27-45 are most closely analogous toa pilot’s flying a commercial airplanea pedestrian’s avoiding an oncoming trucka principal’s rating a teacher’s effectivenessan employee’s inviting a co-worker to dinnera psychologist’s conducting an experiment with students46.The comparison made in lines 44-45 evokes images ofwealth and consumerismdecadence and materialismfamiliarity and modernismpleasure and commercialismcomfort and entrepreneurism47.Which of the following statements does not reinforce the experts’ opinions about the kouros?“It was an extraordinary find” (line 7)“The Getty moved cautiously” (line 9)“Becchina gave the Getty’s legal department documents relating to its more recent history” (lines 10-11)“It didn’t look right” (line 27)“The kouros was the kind of thing that art experts argued about at conferences” (line 52)48.The writer wants to add a sentence to the end of the final paragraph. Which of the following sentences best accomplishes this goal?That’s the power of our adaptive unconscious.The adaptive unconscious is an important part of being human.No one ever knows when the adaptive unconscious will be needed.The adaptive unconscious keeps us from making egregious mistakes.The Getty employees should have heeded their adaptive unconscious.49.The passage includes a shift froma focus on experts to a focus on laypersonsthe world of art to the world of scholarshipa well-known instance to an esoteric examplean important instance to more trivial instancesa particular example to a more general exploration50.The writer wants to add the following sentence to the paragraph that begins on line 52. But then, bit by bit, the Getty’s case began to fall apart. Where would the sentence best be placed?Before sentence 1Before sentence 2After sentence 2After sentence 3After sentence 451.In the paragraph beginning on line 66, the writer wants to reinforce his statement about the adaptive unconscious. Which of the following statements, placed after the paragraph’s first sentence, would best achieve this purpose?The adaptive unconscious is vital to our survival as human beings.New fields of psychology are being delved into regularly as scientists begin to explore the human brain’s capacity for interpreting the information we feed into it.Although the adaptive unconscious is an important part of our human experience, it is only a small part of the power our brains possess to discern the world around us.This notion of the adaptive unconscious is thought of as a kind of giant computer that quickly and quietly processes a lot of the data we need in order to keep functioning as human beings.Leaping to conclusions is something we as humans do almost on a daily basis, and the adaptive unconscious ensures we use our brains as a bulwark against making decisions that might prove detrimental to our well-being.52.It is clear from the first 14 lines thatthe ant battle is an allegory for human battlethe narrator is indifferent to war in generalthe black ants will win the battlethe ant battle parallels the narrator’s inner strugglesthe narrator hates all war, whether ant or human53.The ant battle cry in line 22 is a(n)hyperbole overstating the ferocity of the antssimile comparing the ant battle to a human battleoxymoron demonstrating how much ants are like humanseuphemism suggesting the narrator’s distaste for warpersonification that emphasizes the ants’ determination54.From the first paragraph, the reader can infer that the narratoris a fervent admirer of the Boston Tea Partyis partial to the “imperialist” black antshas extensive knowledge of historyis an expert on different ant specieshas extensive martial experience55.The second paragraph differs from the first in that the secondis more limited in scopeis more metaphorical than literalcontains less elaborate syntaxis more speculative in natureis lighter in tone56.The final sentence of the second paragraph (lines 66-68) serves tohighlight the toll that combat takes on individual soldiersglorify the actual fierceness of warriors in combathint that the reasons for and results of some wars are soon forgottensuggest that the narrator values the lives of ants over those of humansunderscore the futility of all the narrator’s careful observations57.The last paragraph serves primarily tosummarize great ant battles recorded in historyput the narrator’s account into historical perspectivemock historians who glorify war with detailed accountsremind people that wars are common and naturalbelittle scientists who think ants are as important as men58.From the passage as a whole, the reader can infer that the narrator believesants are strong in battle but are not as formidable as humanshuman wars are no more logical or sensible than those of antswar is necessary and is often the only way to achieve peacehumans are more principled and heroic than ants arehe has wasted his time since he knows neither the cause nor the outcome of the ant war
