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OFFICIAL ACT Form 67C · June 2009

Reading

30 questions ~9 min recommended
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=== Meat Market and the old Pioneer office ===
This passage is adapted from the short story "From Aboard the Night Train" by Kimberly M. Blaeser (©1993 by Kimberly M. Blaeser), which appeared in Earth Song, Sky Spirit: Short Stories of the Contemporary Native American Experience. The passage begins with a female narrator traveling to her hometown. The moon gives some light and I can make out the contours of the land, see the faint reflection in the lakes and ponds we pass. Several times I see or imagine I see glowing eyes staring back at me from a patch of woods beside the track...

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1. Based on the narrator’s account, all of the following were part of the past, rather than the present, in her hometown EXCEPT:

2. According to the narrator, which of the following businesses is relatively new to her hometown?

3. When the narrator refers to the cosmonaut as 'a man without a country' (lines 83–84), she is most likely directly referring to the:

4. The point of view from which the passage is told is best described as that of:

5. The passage contains recurring references to all of the following EXCEPT:

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

7. It can reasonably be inferred from the passage that the narrator thinks her hometown has:

8. Details in the passage most strongly suggest that the people meeting the narrator at the train station include:

9. The narrator indicates that the most significant change to her hometown has been the addition of:

10. According to the passage, news reports attributed the cosmonaut’s knees buckling to:

11. The passage is best described as being told from the point of view of a philosopher who is:

12. Based on the passage, which of the following was most likely the first to engage the author’s passionate interest?

13. The main purpose of the last paragraph is to:

14. The passage indicates that the man in the book-cover photograph represents:

15. The author mentions Melody Maker, the top 20, and articles about musicians primarily to suggest that his:

16. In the third paragraph (lines 36–56), the author most nearly characterizes the energy he refers to as:

17. Viewed in the context of the passage, the statement in lines 55–56 is most likely intended to suggest that:

18. The author calls pen and paper “rudimentary tools” (line 80) as part of his argument that:

19. In the context of the passage, lines 17–23 are best described as presenting images of:

20. Which of the following does NOT reasonably describe the transition the author presents in lines 80–84?

21. One of the main ideas established by the passage is that:

22. Learning about which of the following had the largest impact on scientists’ current understanding of where eels breed?

23. The main purpose of the fourth paragraph (lines 34–47) is to describe the:

24. The passage states that the Sargasso Sea is set off from the rest of the Atlantic Ocean by:

25. The passage notes that the Sargasso Sea includes:

26. As it is used in line 13, the word popular most nearly means:

27. As it is used in line 45, the word read most nearly means to:

28. The passage indicates that female eels’ pupils expand and turn blue because the eels:

29. The passage most strongly emphasizes that the process of osmosis is necessary for the eels’ transition from:

30. According to the passage, which of the following characteristics of the eel larvae found by Schmidt provided the best evidence that the larvae were hatched in the Sargasso Sea?

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