To an Old Philosopher in Rome
E) Anne Bradstreet’s
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet
23. It happened this young imp to arrive at Naples… the very walls and
windows whereof shewed it rather to be the Tabernacle of Venus than the
Temple of Vesta. There was all things necessary and in readiness that might
either allure the mind to lust, or entice the heart to folly; a court more meet for
an atheist than for one of Athens; for Ovid than for Aristotle; for a graceless
lover than for a godly liver; more fitter for Paris than Hector, the meter for
Flora than Diana.
John Lyly
Which of the following is used in a way that is no longer idiomatic?
A) ‘happened’
B) ‘the very walls’
C) ‘to be’
D) that might’
E) ‘either’
24. Flora here represents
A) health
B) wealth
C) chastity
D) licentiousness
E refinement
25. All of the following literary devices occur in the passage EXCEPT
A) litotes
B) allusion
C) alliteration
D) antithesis
E) parallelism
26. In order to secure my credit and character as a tradesman, I took care not
only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to avoid all appearances of the
contrary. I dressed plainly; I was seen at no places of idle diversion; I never
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went out a-fishing or shooting; a book, indeed, sometimes debauch’d me from
my work; but that was seldom, snug, and gave no scandal: and to show that I
was not above my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchas’d
at the stores, thro’ the streets on a wheelbarrow. Thus being esteem’d in
industrious thriving young man, and paying duly for what I bought, the
merchants who imported stationery solicited my custom, others propos’d
supplying me with books, and I went on swimmingly.
The writer bases his discussion on the relationship between
A) credit and character
B) appearance and reality
C) failure and success
D) industriousness and frugality
E) borrowing and begging
27. In line 8, ‘above’ means
A) too busy with
B) tired of
C) superior to
D) overburdened by
E) unprepared for
28. In line 14, ‘custom’ means
A) tax
B) inspection
C) business
D) manners
E) recommendation
29. The author of the passage is
A) Thomas Shepard
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) Jonathan Edwards
E) Booker T. Washington
30. Tom Bertram had of late spent so little of his time at home, that he could
be only nominally missed; and Lady Bertram was soon astonished to find
how very well they did even without his father, how well Edmund could
supply his place in carving, talking to the steward, writing to the attorney,
settling with the servants, and equally saving her from all possible fatigue or
exertion in every particular, but that of directing her letters.
The earliest intelligence of the travellers’ safe arrival in Antigua after a
favourable voyage, was received; though not before Mrs. Norris had been
indulging in very dreadful fears, and trying to make Edmund participate them
whenever she could get him alone; and as she depended on being the first
person made acquainted with any fatal catastrophe, she had already arranged
the manner of breaking it to all the others, when Sir Thomas’s assurances of
their both being alive and well, made it necessary to lay by her agitation and
affectionate preparatory speeches for a while.
Of the five persons mentioned in the passage, which have traveled to
Antigua?
A) Mrs. Norris and Edmund
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B) Tom Bertram and Sir Thomas
C) Lady Bertram and Edmund
D) Mrs. Norris and Tom Bertram
E)Lady Bertram and Sir Thomas
31. The modern equivalent of the word ‘intelligence,’ as it is in line 10, is
A)awareness
B) ability
C) wit
D) news
E) intuition
32. Which of the following verbs is used in the passage in a way that is no
longer idiomatic?
A) ‘received’
B) ‘trying’
C) ‘participate’
D) ‘depended’
E) ‘arranged’
33. The passage contrasts
A) Lady Bertram’s complacency with Mrs. Norris’ apprehensiveness and
officiousness
B) Tom Bertram’s goodness and dependability with Edmund’s erratic
behaviour
C)Sir Thomas’ profligacy with Mrs. Norris’ parsimoniousness
D) Edmund’s scholarliness with Mrs. Norris’ pedantry
E)Lady Bertram’s intelligence and insight with Edmund’s obtuseness and
stubbornness
34. The author of the passage is
A) Henry Fielding
B) Jane Austin
C) Emily Bronte
D) George Eliot
E) Thomas Hardy
35. Written with surprising accuracy and realism, especially given that the
author had never participated in war, ___ undercut the presumptions of glory
and heroism that historians of the time brought to their accounts of seemingly
every battle in the great national struggle.
Which of the following correctly completes the sentence?
A) Mailer’s
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