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OFFICIAL ACT Form 52C · 1996

Reading

19 questions ~9 min recommended
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=== The Grin Goes Like a Crescent Moon ===
This passage is adapted from the novel Rich in Love by Josephine Humphreys. In this selection, after finding an old Halloween costume, the narrator is confronted with past memories.

=== The Myth and the Machine ===
This passage is adapted from Lewis Mumford's work The Myth and the Machine: Technics and Human Development. This passage notes the relationship between hunting and the development of imaginative art during the Paleolithic era.

=== Women Poets of the World ===
This passage is adapted from Women Poets of the World by Rob Swigart. This passage explains how women from the Heian Period helped to shape Japanese literature.

=== Natural Acts ===
This passage is adapted from David Quammen's Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature. In this selection, Quammen describes the unusual attributes of the sea cucumber.

=== Water Balance Studies ===
A water company pumps water from a lake to supply several communities, providing measurements of pumping rates to geologists who investigate total inflow and outflow of the lake.

=== Dinosaur Footprints ===
Geologists perform studies on dinosaur footprints to estimate the type, size, speed, and gait of ancient dinosaurs based on modern animals.

=== Electrical Resistance of Metals ===
Tables summarize the resistance of aluminum and copper wires to determine how diameter and temperature affect their resistance.

=== Chemical Reactions of Salts ===
Observations of reactions between metal nitrate solutions and various X2- ions, determining the formations of precipitates based on solubility.

=== Pendulum Experiments ===
Experiments conducted to determine how mass, wire length, and angle of initial displacement affect the period of a pendulum.

=== Mineral Requirements for Plants ===
A table detailing essential minerals for flowering plants, their functions, and the quantities needed to grow 100 bushels of corn.

=== Evolutionary Hypotheses ===
Comparative analysis of rock layers and fossils to understand gradualism and episodic evolution, with insights into climate impacts on species evolution.

1. According to the passage, the narrator finally located the cat costume's tail:

2. The narrator claims that kindergarten teachers have to be:

3. According to the passage, the narrator cannot find the head to her mother's Halloween costume most probably because:

4. The majority of the items of clothing the narrator finds in her mother's closet have in common the fact that they are:

5. One purpose lines 53-60 serve in relation to the passage as a whole is to suggest that:

6. According to the passage, dreams incited:

7. According to the passage, what was the impact of stone-pointed javelins or arrows?

8. The Heian period in Japan was known as a period of:

9. Which of the following phrases best describes the tanka form of Japanese poetry?

10. According to the passage, the sea cucumber's movement across the ocean floor is accomplished by means of:

11. According to the passage, which of the following species might bother a sea cucumber?

12. An unknown solution containing salts of two of the four elements barium, calcium, magnesium, and strontium gives no reaction with sulfuric acid. Based on the table, the unknown solution probably contains:

13. A 4-kg mass is suspended from a string with a length of 0.5 m and released from an initial displacement angle of 2°. Which of the following is the best estimate for the resulting period of this pendulum?

14. A student is asked to estimate the length of wire used in Experiment 3. Based on the results of all the experiments, the student correctly concludes that the length of the wire used in Experiment 3:

15. According to the information presented in the table, flowering plants require iron in order to:

16. A scientist hypothesized that some minerals are required in minute quantities and are used as components of enzymes by flowering plants. The data for which of the following minerals would support this hypothesis?

17. A botanist in South America found a new variety of corn identical to the type described in the table except that it utilizes copper instead of iron in activating porphyrins. Approximately how many pounds of copper would you predict would be required to grow 100 bushels of this new corn?

18. Which of the following graphs of body size versus time best expresses the views of Gradualism?

19. If the global climate were to change over the next few thousand years, becoming increasingly colder, which of the following would most likely take place according to the Episodic view?

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