(02.01 MC)Read the passage and answer the question that follows.Most people assume a turtle is just a turtle, but that isn’t the case. Aquatic turtles have a smooth, lightweight, and streamlined shell that allows them to easily navigate ponds and lakes. Land turtles, like tortoises, have dome-shaped shells that help to regulate their body temperatures both above and below ground.Which text structure does the author use?

(01.03 MC)Read the excerpt from The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery and answer the question that follows.Rich, golden-brown hair, elaborately dressed, with a sparkling bandeau holding its glossy puffs in place; large, brilliant blue eyes and thick silken lashes; face of rose and bare neck of snow, rising above her gown; great pearl bubbles in her ears; the blue-white diamond flame on her long, smooth, waxen finger with its rosy, pointed nail. Arms of marble, gleaming through green chiffon and shadow lace.How does the use of the metaphors in bold enhance the meaning of the passage?

(01.02 MC)Read the excerpt from The Death of Ivan Ilyitch by Leo Tolstoy. Answer the question that follows.Ivan Ilych’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. He had been a member of the Court of Justice, and died at the age of forty-five. His father had been an official who after serving in various ministries and departments in Petersburg had made the sort of career which brings men to positions from which by reason of their long service they cannot be dismissed, though they are obviously unfit to hold any responsible position, and for whom therefore posts are specially created, which though fictitious carry salaries of from six to ten thousand rubles that are not fictitious, and in receipt of which they live on to a great age.Which point of view is used in this passage?

(01.01 MC)At the beginning of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is obedient and innocent. At the end of the play, she is self-reliant and independent. Juliet is a dynamic character.

(01.01 MC)Read the fable “The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean.” Answer the question that follows.All alone, in a quiet little village, lived a poor old woman. One day she had a dish of beans which she wanted to cook for dinner, so she made a fire on the hearth, and in order that it should burn up quickly she lighted it with a handful of straw.She hung the pot over the fire, and poured in the beans; but one fell on to the floor without her noticing it, and rolled away beside a piece of straw. Soon afterwards a live coal flew out of the fire and joined their company. Then the straw began to speak.”Dear friends,” said he, “whence come you?””I was fortunate enough to spring out of the fire,” answered the coal. “Had I not exerted myself to get out when I did, I should most certainly have been burnt to ashes.””I have also just managed to save my skin,” said the bean. “Had the old woman succeeded in putting me into the pot, I should have been stewed without mercy, just as my comrades are being served now.””My fate might have been no better,” the straw told them. “The old woman burnt sixty of my brothers at once, but fortunately I was able to slip through her fingers.””What shall we do now?” said the coal.”Well,” answered the bean, “my opinion is that, as we have all been so fortunate as to escape death, we should leave this place before any new misfortune overtakes us. Let us all three become traveling companions and set out upon a journey to some unknown country.”This suggestion pleased both the straw and the coal, so away they all went at once. Before long they came to a brook, and as there was no bridge across it they did not know how to get to the other side; but the straw had a good idea: “I will lay myself over the water, and you can walk across me as though I were a bridge,” he said. So he stretched himself from one bank to the other, and the coal, who was of a hasty disposition, at once tripped gaily on to the newly-built bridge. Half way across she hesitated, and began to feel afraid of the rushing water beneath her. She dared go no farther, but neither would she return; but she stood there so long that the straw caught fire, broke in two, and fell into the stream. Of course, the coal was bound to follow. No sooner did she touch the water than—hiss, zish! out she went, and never glowed again.The bean, who was a careful fellow, had stayed on the bank, to watch how the coal got across, before trusting himself to such a slender bridge. But when he saw what very strange figures his friends cut, he could not help laughing. He laughed and laughed till he could not stop, and at length he split his side.It would have gone badly with him then, had not a tailor happened to pass by. He was a kind-hearted fellow, and at once took out his needle and thread and began to repair the mischief.The bean thanked him politely, for he knew that the tailor had saved his life, but unfortunately he had used black thread, and from that time till to-day every bean has a little black stitch in its side.Which stage of the plot is present in the bolded section?

(01.03 LC)Match each figurative language device to its correct definition.

(01.01 MC)At the beginning of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge is a very hateful and stingy man. However, after three ghosts visit him he understands the true meaning of life. Scrooge would be considered a static character.

(01.03 LC)A thesaurus can be used to find words to convey the author’s tone.

(01.06 MC)Read the sentence and answer the question that follows.Jam is made by mashing fruit, jelly is made by adding fruit juice, and preserves using whole fruit.Which part of the sentence contains faulty parallel structure?

(01.02 MC)Read the fable. Answer the question that follows.A very wealthy old man, imagining that he was on the point of death, sent for his sons and divided his property among them. However, he did not die for several years afterward, and miserable years many of them were. Besides the weariness of old age, the old fellow had to bear with much abuse and cruelty from his sons. Wretched, selfish ingrates! Previously they vied with one another in trying to please their father, hoping thus to receive more money, but now they had received their patrimony, they cared not how soon he left them—nay, the sooner the better, because he was only a needless trouble and expense. And they let the poor old man know what they felt.One day he met a friend and related to him all his troubles. The friend sympathized very much with him, and promised to think over the matter, and call in a little while and tell him what to do. He did so; in a few days he visited the old man and put down four bags full of stones and gravel before him.”Look here, friend,” said he. “Your sons will get to know of my coming here to-day, and will inquire about it. You must pretend that I came to discharge a long-standing debt with you, and that you are several thousands of rupees richer than you thought you were. Keep these bags in your own hands, and on no account let your sons get to them as long as you are alive. You will soon find them change their conduct toward you. Salaam, I will come again soon to see how you are getting on.”When the young men got to hear of this further increase of wealth they began to be more attentive and pleasing to their father than ever before. And thus they continued to the day of the old man’s demise, when the bags were greedily opened, and found to contain only stones and gravel!What universal theme is revealed in the text?