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OFFICIAL ACT Form D06 · 06 2021

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8 questions ~9 min recommended
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=== Passage A ===
The most notorious live performance in rock & roll lasted about fifteen minutes: three songs played at assaultive volume by a plugged-in blues band fronted by the young poet-king of American folk music, at the sacred annual congress of acoustic purists, the Newport Folk Festival. In that quarter-hour, on the warm Sunday evening of July 25th, 1965, at Freebody Park in Newport, Rhode Island, Bob Dylan, 24—backed by the electric-Chicago charge of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band—declared his independence from the orthodoxy of the folk scene and publicly unveiled his rock & roll heart...

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 Passage A, 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:

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