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OFFICIAL ACT Form Z04 · 04 2021

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=== Passage A ===
Even when Luc was busy and could not talk he always made me welcome and allowed me to wander around the inner sanctum of the back room on my own...

=== Passage B ===
It was never Kenney Holmes’s intention to become a wedding singer. The grandson of West Indian immigrants, Holmes was raised in Gordon Heights...

=== Passage III ===
In another well-known studio portrait, circa 1890, Goyathlay poses with a rifle. To late-nineteenth-century Americans, Geronimo was a dangerous enemy, yet at the same time a curiosity and romantic symbol of the 'Wild West.' This photo personifies the renegade image but, strangely, it was taken about two to four years after Goyathlay surrendered—while he was a prisoner of war. Why, then, was this photo taken? What meaning did it convey at the time? What must have been in Goyathlay’s mind? What does the photo mean today? Is it loaded with historical truths or is it as empty as the prisoner’s bullet chamber? The author of the passage is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma.

=== Passage IV ===
Adaptations of plants to deserts include dormancy and a variety of structural and behavioral adaptations. The majority of desert plants depend on a strategy that capitalizes on small size. They are annuals that spring up from dry, dormant, heat-resistant seeds...

1. In Passage A, the parenthetical information in line 19 and lines 21–23 mainly serves to:

2. Based on the assertion in Passage A that Luc’s 'attitude about how people treated their pianos seemed to mirror his philosophy of life' (lines 25–26), which of the following statements would most nearly describe Luc’s philosophy of life?

3. As it is used in line 32, the phrase 'bit into' most nearly means:

4. In the third paragraph of Passage B (lines 61–65), the author most clearly shifts from:

5. In Passage B, the statement that Lifschey 'was not merely an excellent oboist; he was a great artist' (lines 44–45) can best be described as:

6. In Passage B, it can most reasonably be inferred that Heifetz’s response to the woman who congratulates him is intended to point out that:

7. In Passage B, the author most directly indicates that the violin is sometimes an adversary by stating that it:

8. Compared to Passage A, Passage B is more directly focused on the:

9. In contrast to the way the pianos are described in Passage A, the passage author’s violin in Passage B is described as:

10. Which of the following assertions about instruments is most strongly supported by details provided in both Passage A and Passage B?

11. Which of the following rhetorical techniques does the author repeatedly use in the passage as a means to engage the reader?

12. It can most reasonably be inferred that the author’s statements about the educational use of photographs apply to photographs taken during what time period?

13. Which of the following words is most nearly given a negative connotation in the passage?

14. Which of the following actions referred to in the passage most clearly characterizes a hypothetical event rather than an actual event?

15. Particular photographs of Goyathlay are referred to and described by the author to support his claim that:

16. The author most strongly suggests that one reason commercial photographers began to photograph Native American communities was that commercial photographers were:

17. In the passage, the author notes that a strange aspect of the photo of Goyathlay with a rifle is that the photo was taken:

18. The author directly refers to which of the following aspects of the photograph of Goyathlay in a garden as being ironic?

19. The author indicates that for the sake of an unbiased interpretation, compared to reading written documents with care, reading photographs with care is:

20. In line 86, the word framed is used figuratively to describe:

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