1. In PassageA, the words “sacred” and “purists” (line 5) most nearly serve to characterize the Newport Folk Festival and its attendees as:
2. The information about Dylan’s guitar in lines 23–26 of Passage A primarily serves to:
3. According to PassageA, Dylan had the wrong harmonica onstage to sing “Mr. Tambourine Man” because:
4. Which of the following statements best captures a main difference in the focus of the two passages?
5. With which of the following claims would the authors of both passages most likely agree?
6. Compared to Passage A, Passage B provides more information about:
7. The first paragraph most strongly suggests that a barn owl must be able to locate sounds in the vertical dimension mainly because it hunts:
8. The author uses the expression 'the azimuth of the sound' (line 21) most nearly to refer to a sound’s:
9. As it is used in line 20, the word exploiting most nearly means:
10. Which of the following behaviors of a barn owl does the author provide as the strongest evidence of the bird’s ability to detect subtle changes in the origin of a sound?
11. The passage indicates that each neuron in the network of neurons in the barn owl’s midbrain is excited only by sounds:
12. The author’s use of the word 'deadly' (line 45) most nearly serves to:
13. The author directly states that which of the following features of the barn owl is the most visually striking?
14. According to the passage, in terms of length and width, a barn owl’s troughs are:
15. The author most likely refers to the feathers that cover the barn owl’s facial structure as being 'acoustically transparent' (line 65) to emphasize that the feathers are:
16. Based on the passage, which of the following statements most accurately compares a human’s ability to locate the source of a sound in azimuth and elevation to the barn owl’s ability to do so?