ACT Reading:Questions
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In Passage A, the parenthetical information in line 19 and lines 21–23 mainly serves to:
A. specify how Luc identified certain aspects of a piano’s history.
B. portray Luc as overly judgmental about piano transportation.
C. describe the types of rules that visitors to Luc’s shop were required to follow.
D. indicate some of Luc’s firm beliefs about piano care.
What is Craft and Structure?
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Some desert animals similarly store water. The frog Cyclorana platycephala, from the northern Australian desert, fills up and greatly expands its urinary bladder to use as a water bag before burying itself in the soil, where it spends most of the year waiting for the next rain. While in the ground it sloughs off skin and forms around itself a nearly waterproof cocoon that resembles a plastic bag and reduces evaporative water loss.
What is Natural Science?
Test takers have this many minutes to complete the ACT Reading section.
What is 35 minutes?
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Based on the assertion in Passage A that Luc’s “attitude about how people treated their pianos seemed to mirror his philosophy of life” (lines 25–26), which of the following statements would most nearly describe Luc’s philosophy of life?
F. It’s better to live a full and imperfect life than not participate because something might go wrong.
G. Life is a fragile gift that must be cherished and kept safe at all times.
H. Living well is like playing the piano well; it requires dedication and practice.
J. It’s important not to take life’s opportunities for granted because they may not come a second time.
What is Key Ideas and Details?
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Joseph Roisman, the distinguished first violinist of the Budapest String Quartet, seemed to be content to give up his beloved Lorenzo Storioni when he agreed to sell it to me after the Quartet retired. But when I finally met with him, he had second thoughts. “Steinhardt,” he said to me plaintively, “I’ll sell the violin to you some day, but for now I’m enjoying playing chamber music with my friends every Friday night.” And that is exactly what he did until his death a year or two later.
What is the Arts?
The number of questions in the ACT Reading section.
What is 40 questions?
Name the question type:
One theme of the passage is that:
F. one’s previous experiences and pursuits can be useful in achieving success.
G. talent is the most important factor in achieving success in both business and music.
H. recognizing one’s limitations is necessary in overcoming one’s failures.
J. pursuing one’s dreams should take precedence over more practical matters.
What is Key Ideas & Details?
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It was never Kenney Holmes’s intention to become a wedding singer. The grandson of West Indian immi- grants, Holmes was raised in Gordon Heights, on Long Island, in what he calls “a small black community founded by like-minded thinkers,” families of immi- grants and Southern blacks who, as Holmes says, “didn’t come here to fool around” and who handed down to their children their own keen sense of ambition. “We grew up in that kind of atmosphere,” he says, “of positive thinking, of getting educated, whether or not you had a degree.”
What is the Humanities?
The number of passages in the ACT Reading Section.
What is four (4) passages?
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The main purpose of the passage is to:
A. explain why Holmes’s musical tastes gradually changed over time.
B. describe how Holmes’s hectic professional life affects his personal life.
C. highlight the different instruments Holmes mastered in becoming a famous musician.
D. document how Holmes eventually became an enterprising bandleader.
What is Craft & Structure?
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The Chiricahua Apaches’ fight for freedom captured the American imagination in the late nineteenth century. “Geronimo,” especially, became a legendary figure and a media phenomenon whose legacy has lasted into the twenty-first century. He became synonymous with courage, daring, and savage ruthlessness. World War II paratroopers shouted his name as they jumped from airplanes into combat. Movies, television shows, comic books, popular songs, posters, T-shirts, and American cities have borne his image and name. One photo that shows Goyathlay and three other Chiricahuas in their camp just prior to surrendering to U.S. forces in 1886 documents a critical and difficult day for the people who had fought so diligently for their freedom.
What is Social Science?
The third section of the ACT.
Name the question type:
Particular photographs of Goyathlay are referred to and described by the author to support his claim that:
A. accurately understanding a photograph depends on knowing the circumstances in which a photograph was taken.
B. photographs can be used to date events in the life of a legendary figure like Goyathlay.
C. anyone can control his or her public image by becoming more involved in the field of photography.
D. the merits of a photograph from the nineteenth century depend on who took the photograph.
What is Integration of Knowledge and Ideas?
Name one of the two ways passages appear in the ACT Reading section.
What is one long passage?
or
What is two shorter passages (A and B)?
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