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The phrase starched and ironed her face(line 1) is best interpreted to mean that Janie
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erected a fascade appropriate to a formal occasion
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THe phrase rollicking with the springtime across the world evokes Janie's
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attitude toward her own future
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The phrase asking lonesomeness some questions presents an example of
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personification
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Janie had hated her grandmother primarily for
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systematically repressing Janie's free spirit
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The image of a great journey is a reference to
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the full experience of life
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In context, which of the following depends on the way you see things?
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your chance of achieving fulfillment
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In context, the phrase deal in scraps(line 45) is best interpreted to mean
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focus narrowly on practical problems
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The parable of creation primarily to
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illustrate Janie's self-perception and philosophy of life
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Janie believed that the very basci characteristic of human nature is
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irrepressible joy
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In the parable of creation, "each little spark", represents
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a human soul
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It can be inferred that each man who drove consdierable distance to see JAnie was
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hoping to convince her that he would be a worthy successor to Joe
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WHich of the following best describes Janie at the end of the passage?
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She feels free from social constraints and confident about the future
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The tone of hte last 2 paragraphs
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gentle sarcasm
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Which of the following best describes how Janie felt about the influence of her mother and her grandmother?
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she still harbored some resentment, but was confident that she had matured intact
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All of the folling represent figurative language except
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expensive black folds
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next prose passage
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your mother
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Which of the following best indicates the subject of the passage?
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the speaker's indictment of the grandparents' selfishness
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The spiritual poverty of the children is most likely the result of
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emotional deprivation
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The attitude of the speaker as a an adult, in contrast to the attitude of the child observer, is best described as
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cheerfully vindinctive and unforgiving
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The granparents' home and furnishings signify to the children
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a world to be approached, even cautiously sampled, but not possessed
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Which of the folliwing best describes the grandfather?
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self absorbed
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The cheif efffect og such contrasts as business matters and rheumatism and Ste. Anne De BEaupre and Miami is to
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intensify the speaker's sense of the ridiculous
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The comparsion of the grandfather to Galahad is ironic primarily becasue the grandfather?
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has less pure ideals, less noble pursuits
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All of the folowing help substain a pattern of religious imagery in teh passage except
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officiated
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which of the following is the most credible reason for the kind of attention the grandmother paid to the grandchildren?
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she had feelings of inadequacy
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The passage presents an ironic juxtaposition of
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innocence and egotism
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Which of the following best sums up the contrast btwn the attitude of the adult speaker and child speaker?
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accusatory... awed
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The speaker's attitude toward he grandparents is one of
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bitterness
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grandmother's regard for her own conversation is evidence of her
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smugness and inhospitality
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The principal device used by the speaker to satirize the grandmother's conversation is
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mingling the serious and the trival indiscriminately
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next prose passage
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f this
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The primary distinction made int eh first paragraph is one between
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a narrow definition of tradition and more inclusive one
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Which of the folliwng best describes the fucntion of the first sentence?
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it clears the way for serious discussion by dismissing a common misconception
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THe phrase lost in the san is best read as a metaphor relating to
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ephermal trends
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In context, the clause, anyone who would continue to be a writer beyond his twenty fifth year suggests which of the following?
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1 and 3 only
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According to the passage, writers who are most aware of their own contemporaneity would be those who
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have an intimate acquaintance with past and present
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In the 1st paragraph, the author is most concerned with
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defining the historical sense as it relates to writing
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The author implies that the first course is inadmissible becasue following it leads to
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failure of discriminate among the various literary works of past centuries
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The main current is best understood as that
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is and has been durable in literature
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IN line 45, the mind which changes refers to which of the following
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1 and 2 only
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In lines 48-49, the author refers to the rock drawing of .... as
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a part of a continuing artistic tradition that is still changing
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Which of the following is implicit before That this development ... improvement?
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THe writer must be aware
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The function of the quotation in lines 60-62 is primarily to
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support ironicallt an idea different from the one apparently intended by "Someone"
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The development of the argument can best be described as progressing from the
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assertion of an idea to an elaboration of its meaning
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Taken as a whole, the passage is best described as
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an expository passage largely concerned with defintion
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finals suck
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The imagery in the 1st stanza most clearly suggests?
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powerful domination
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IN the 2nd stanza, Adversty is likened to a
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teacher
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The Stern rugged nurse(line13) imparts which of the following to Virtue>
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the ability to empathize
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The pronoun"own" refers to
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woe
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THe adjective terrific is best interpreted to
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menacing
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Which of the following accounts for the ironic tone of and leave us leaisure to be good?
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leisure is most often associated with idleness rather than with virtue
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Melancholy is characterzied by her
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reticence and downward gaze
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The suppliant is
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the speaker
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AS the poem progresses, the speaker's mode of expression shifts from one of
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homage to entreaty
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next passage
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meowww
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In the 1st section of the poem, the speaker seeks to convey a feeling of
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contentment
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Saddening suggests that the
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clouds have become darker
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The speaker gives symbolic significance to which of the following?
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1,2,4 only
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Lines 11 and 12 are best understood to mean which of the following ?
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the fact that we can just hear the far-off sea shows how quiet our surroundings are
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the breeze is compared to
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lover
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desultory
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music is not evenly substained
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speaker's description of the sound of the lute emphasize all except
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remoteness
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the mute still air.... instrumente suggest that the
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air itslef contains potential musci
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harp is not
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a gentle reproof
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the speaker implies that to try to fathom the INcompresenible is
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an act of overweening pride
