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- 1. Multiple Choice
The speaker in the passage can best be described as a person who isan advocate of young people’s social activisma supporter of class distinctionsa critic of college educationagainst traditional roles for women - 2. Multiple ChoiceThe purpose of the anecdote with which the speaker begins paragraph 1 is toA. elicit sympathy by retelling a tale of lonelinesspaint a picture of city life to fascinate her listenersengage the audience by evoking a common experienceintroduce the idea of the difficulties of the laboring class
- 3. Multiple ChoiceIn line 9, “it” refers to“breakfast” (line 7)“praying” (line 8)“sense of human fellowship” (line 8)“a sudden sense of futility” (line 6)
- 4. Multiple ChoiceIn context, “grotesque” (line 13) is best interpreted ascondescendingdisturbingridiculousout of place
- 5. Multiple ChoiceThe sentence beginning “You turn helplessly to the waiter” (lines 12–15) containsironyparadoxparallel syntaxunderstatement
- 6. Multiple ChoiceThe implication of the phrase “civilization has placed you apart” (line 14) is that the speaker and the waiterhave different professionsare not of the same genderpursue different interestsare not of the same social class
- 7. Multiple ChoiceIt can be inferred when the speaker states, “literature is full of portrayals of these glimpses” (lines 15–16) that the author is referring tothe “forlorn feeling” (line 1)the sinking feeling of the heart mentioned in line 6the sense of a “common humanity” (line 10)the man who brings in breakfast in line 7
- 8. Multiple ChoiceThe use of the subjunctive tense in lines 19–20 indicates that the telling of the types of tales to which the speaker refersis not something we dowould take a great deal of timeis something only children dowould not take a great deal of time
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe first two sentences of paragraph 2 (lines 16–29) indicatea continuation of the ideas expressed in paragraph 1a change in focus from the ideas in paragraph 1a comparison of ideas with those enumerated in paragraph 1a direct contrast to the ideas expressed in paragraph 1
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe organization of ideas in lines 28–29, “I have seen young girls…value to itself” is best described asa historical example followed by specific examplesa generalization followed by a conclusionthe speaker’s reflection on her girlhooda movement from the particular to the general
- 11. Multiple ChoiceThe speaker employs an analogy in lines 43–46 toemphasize the fact that society ignores the innate abilities of childrenargue that the desire of the young to help others is not cultivatedilluminate the disregard society has for children’s tendencies to shareindicate her dismay at society for disregarding the advice of educators
- 12. Multiple ChoiceThe word “educated” (line 49) is in quotation marks to indicate itsironic usagepositive effectsimportancelack of rigor
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhich one of the following characteristics of girls is emphasized in lines 56–57?their enlightening education and their contentious relationships with parentstheir attendance at lectures and the child-rearing practices of their parentstheir humanitarian training and their parents’ desire to stifle this trainingtheir perseverance and their parent’s refusal to condone their actions
- 14. Multiple ChoiceThe “deed” that the speaker refers to as “that of exclusiveness and caution” (line 69–71) is prefigured in“the religious zeal of the family” (line 65)“missionary” efforts (line 65)the “family claim” (line 62)“altruistic tendencies” (line 56)
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