Prose Fiction (Passage #1)
Which of the following details is used in the passage to describe how Monique and her friends responded to hearing Esperanza's audition?
C. Their fading facial expressions of mockery.
As it is used in line 79, the word alien most nearly means:
C. Unusual
According to Tintype, Porter and Melies are the true inventors of the cinema because they:
H. Introduced the first blockbuster films that made significant amounts of money.
As it is used in line 44. the word favor nearly means:
H. Promote
Passage #2
The descriptions offered by the author in the second paragraph (lines 7-15) are used to illustrate the concept that:
A. Consumer behavior toward new forms of technology changes over time.
According to the narrator, what did Esperanza do prior to singing "The Star Spangled Banner"?
A. Looked only at Mrs. Dominguez
The phrase the status quo (line 85) most likely refers to:
D. Our current pattern of lifestyles and consumer habits.
The accounts of Throckmorton and tintype are similar in that they believe:
G. Cinema's greatest achievements would not have been possible without the work of Edison and Lumieres.
According to the passage, levels of sunlight can influence cholera because:
H. Sunlight promotes the growth of organisms upon which copepods depend.
Passage #4
It can reasonable be inferred that the phrase similar environmental changes (line 48) refers to:
D. Warmer ocean water influencing rain and cloud cover.
It can be reasonably inferred from the passage that Esperanza Solito:
B. Was not sitting near Monique and her friends during the auditions.
The last paragraph differs from the first paragraph in that in the last paragraph the author:
F. Makes a prediction rather than making an observation.
Tintype compares Edison and the Lumieres to "a dairy farmer" (line 57) in order to suggest that:
A. Those who produce the raw material do not necessarily deserve credit for what is done with that raw material.
It can reasonably be inferred from the passage that the information about the use of satellite-based data is presented primarily to:
G. Analyze the data's potential use in disease-prevention.
Passage #3
According to Throckmorton, why do contemporary viewers have Edison and the Lumieres "to thank" (line 43)?
H. Edison and Lumieres created some of the first and most thrilling narrative films of the nineteenth century.
According to the passage, when Esperanza Solito got to the climax of "The Star Spangled Banner," she:
D. Could be heard throughout the auditorium.
The passage states that original users of remote controls likely did all of the following EXCEPT:
C. Feel instinctively for the desired button.
According to information in the second paragraph )lines 14-28), the early film camera was related to the phonograph in that the camera was:
A. Conceived as a technology to accompany the sounds produced by the phonograph.
The passage states that climatic satellite data has helped to do all of the following EXCEPT:
J. Raise the ocean temperature.
Passage #1
The passage initially portrays Monique and her friends as:
J. Aloof and disparaging
It can be reasonably inferred from the passage that Monique believed the song she chose for her audition:
C. Would likely be more recognizable to Monique's parents than to her friends.
Among the following quotations from the passage, the one that best summarizes what the author sees as a potential danger is:
D. "Our outlook on solving global climate problems" (Line 59)
The word "play" (line 22) is set off in quotation marks in order to signify that the:
D. Technology used still photographs to produce the illusion of motion.
The passage states that Linthicum is conducting similar efforts to Colwell's in that Linthicum:
J. Uses satellite data to build predictive models.
Passage #2
The author uses the statement "these technological marvels seem like elements of the periodic table" (lines 38-39) most nearly to mean that:
G. Consumers regard many technological inventions as unremarkable.