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Question 1
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Square PQRS is on the coordinate plane, and each side of the square is parallel to either the x-axis or y-axis.
Point P has coordinates (−2,−1) and point R has the coordinates (3,4).
Quantity A: 5√2
Quantity B: The distance between points P and R
Answer: A
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Square PQRS is on the coordinate plane, and each side of the square is parallel to either the x-axis or y-axis.
Point P has coordinates (−2,−1) and point R has the coordinates (3,4).
Quantity A: 5√2
Quantity B: The distance between points P and R
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Question 2
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What values of x make the following statement true?|x – 3| < 9
Answer: D
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Question 3
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Sir Giles’s irritating reserve, not even excused by a word of apology, reached the limits of his endurance. He
respectfully protested. “I regret to find, sir,” he said, “that I have lost my place in my employer’s estimation. The
man to whom you confide the superintendence of your clerks and the transaction of your business has, I
venture to think, some claim (under the present circumstances) to be trusted.” The banker was now offended
on his side.
“I readily admit your claim,” he answered, “when you are sitting at your desk in my office. But, even in these
days of strikes, co-operations, and bank holidays, an employer has one privilege left – he has not ceased to be
a Man, and he has not forfeited a man’s right to keep his own secrets. I fail to see anything in my conduct which
has given you just reason to complain.”
Dennis, rebuked, made his bow in silence, and withdrew.
Did these acts of humility mean that he submitted? They meant exactly the contrary. He had made up his mind
that Sir Giles Mountjoy’s motives should, sooner or later, cease to be mysteries to Sir Giles Mountjoy’s clerk.
In context, the word “rebuked” is best represented by
Answer: A
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Sir Giles’s irritating reserve, not even excused by a word of apology, reached the limits of his endurance. He
respectfully protested. “I regret to find, sir,” he said, “that I have lost my place in my employer’s estimation. The
man to whom you confide the superintendence of your clerks and the transaction of your business has, I
venture to think, some claim (under the present circumstances) to be trusted.” The banker was now offended
on his side.
“I readily admit your claim,” he answered, “when you are sitting at your desk in my office. But, even in these
days of strikes, co-operations, and bank holidays, an employer has one privilege left – he has not ceased to be
a Man, and he has not forfeited a man’s right to keep his own secrets. I fail to see anything in my conduct which
has given you just reason to complain.”
Dennis, rebuked, made his bow in silence, and withdrew.
Did these acts of humility mean that he submitted? They meant exactly the contrary. He had made up his mind
that Sir Giles Mountjoy’s motives should, sooner or later, cease to be mysteries to Sir Giles Mountjoy’s clerk.
In context, the word “rebuked” is best represented by
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Question 4
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Adapted from “Feathers of Sea Birds and Wild Fowl for Bedding” from The Utility of Birds by Edward Forbush
(ed. 1922)
In the colder countries of the world, the feathers and down of waterfowl have been in great demand for
centuries as filling for beds and pillows. Such feathers are perfect non-conductors of heat, and beds, pillows, or
coverlets filled with them represent the acme of comfort and durability. The early settlers of New England saved
for such purposes the feathers and down from the thousands of wild-fowl which they killed, but as the
population increased in numbers, the quantity thus furnished was insufficient, and the people sought a larger
supply in the vast colonies of ducks and geese along the Labrador coast.
The manner in which the feathers and down were obtained, unlike the method practiced in Iceland, did not tend
to conserve and protect the source of supply. In Iceland, the people have continued to receive for many years a
considerable income by collecting eider down, but there they do not “kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.”
Ducks line their nests with down plucked from their own breasts and that of the eider is particularly valuable for
bedding. In Iceland, these birds are so carefully protected that they have become as tame and unsuspicious as
domestic fowls In North America. Where they are constantly hunted they often conceal their nests in the midst
of weeds or bushes, but in Iceland, they make their nests and deposit their eggs in holes dug for them in the
sod. A supply of the ducks is maintained so that the people derive from them an annual income.
In North America, quite a different policy was pursued. The demand for feathers became so great in the New
England colonies about the middle of the eighteenth century that vessels were fitted out there for the coast of
Labrador for the express purpose of securing the feathers and down of wild fowl. Eider down having become
valuable and these ducks being in the habit of congregating by thousands on barren islands of the Labrador
coast, the birds became the victims of the ships’ crews. As the ducks molt all their primary feathers at once in
July or August and are then quite incapable of flight and the young birds are unable to fly until well grown, the
hunters were able to surround the helpless birds, drive them together, and kill them with clubs. Otis says that
millions of wildfowl were thus destroyed and that in a few years their haunts were so broken up by this
wholesale slaughter and their numbers were so diminished that feather voyages became unprofitable and were
given up.
This practice, followed by the almost continual egging, clubbing, shooting, etc. by Labrador fishermen, may
have been a chief factor in the extinction of the Labrador duck, that species of supposed restricted breeding
range. No doubt had the eider duck been restricted in its breeding range to the islands of Labrador, it also
would have been exterminated long ago.
The tone of the third paragraph of the passage __________.
Answer: C
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Adapted from “Feathers of Sea Birds and Wild Fowl for Bedding” from The Utility of Birds by Edward Forbush
(ed. 1922)
In the colder countries of the world, the feathers and down of waterfowl have been in great demand for
centuries as filling for beds and pillows. Such feathers are perfect non-conductors of heat, and beds, pillows, or
coverlets filled with them represent the acme of comfort and durability. The early settlers of New England saved
for such purposes the feathers and down from the thousands of wild-fowl which they killed, but as the
population increased in numbers, the quantity thus furnished was insufficient, and the people sought a larger
supply in the vast colonies of ducks and geese along the Labrador coast.
The manner in which the feathers and down were obtained, unlike the method practiced in Iceland, did not tend
to conserve and protect the source of supply. In Iceland, the people have continued to receive for many years a
considerable income by collecting eider down, but there they do not “kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.”
Ducks line their nests with down plucked from their own breasts and that of the eider is particularly valuable for
bedding. In Iceland, these birds are so carefully protected that they have become as tame and unsuspicious as
domestic fowls In North America. Where they are constantly hunted they often conceal their nests in the midst
of weeds or bushes, but in Iceland, they make their nests and deposit their eggs in holes dug for them in the
sod. A supply of the ducks is maintained so that the people derive from them an annual income.
In North America, quite a different policy was pursued. The demand for feathers became so great in the New
England colonies about the middle of the eighteenth century that vessels were fitted out there for the coast of
Labrador for the express purpose of securing the feathers and down of wild fowl. Eider down having become
valuable and these ducks being in the habit of congregating by thousands on barren islands of the Labrador
coast, the birds became the victims of the ships’ crews. As the ducks molt all their primary feathers at once in
July or August and are then quite incapable of flight and the young birds are unable to fly until well grown, the
hunters were able to surround the helpless birds, drive them together, and kill them with clubs. Otis says that
millions of wildfowl were thus destroyed and that in a few years their haunts were so broken up by this
wholesale slaughter and their numbers were so diminished that feather voyages became unprofitable and were
given up.
This practice, followed by the almost continual egging, clubbing, shooting, etc. by Labrador fishermen, may
have been a chief factor in the extinction of the Labrador duck, that species of supposed restricted breeding
range. No doubt had the eider duck been restricted in its breeding range to the islands of Labrador, it also
would have been exterminated long ago.
The tone of the third paragraph of the passage __________.
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Question 5
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The main purpose of this story is to appeal to the reader’s interest in a subject which has been the theme of
some of the greatest writers, living and dead – but which has never been, and can never be, exhausted,
because it is a subject eternally interesting to all mankind. Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a
human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil, which we have all felt, which we have all
known. It has been my aim to make the character of “Magdalen,” which personifies this struggle, a pathetic character
even in its perversity and its error; and I have tried hard to attain this result by the least obtrusive and the least
artificial of all means – by a resolute adherence throughout to the truth as it is in Nature. This design was no
easy one to accomplish; and it has been a great encouragement to me (during the publication of my story in its
periodical form) to know, on the authority of many readers, that the object which I had proposed to myself, I
might, in some degree, consider as an object achieved.
Round the central figure in the narrative other characters will be found grouped, in sharp contrast – contrast, for
the most part, in which I have endeavored to make the element of humor mainly predominant. I have sought to
impart this relief to the more serious passages in the book, not only because I believe myself to be justified in
doing so by the laws of Art – but because experience has taught me (what the experience of my readers will
doubtless confirm) that there is no such moral phenomenon as unmixed tragedy to be found in the world
around us. Look where we may, the dark threads and the light cross each other perpetually in the texture of
human life.
What selection best identifies the device utilized as a whole in the opening first paragraph?
Answer: C
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The main purpose of this story is to appeal to the reader’s interest in a subject which has been the theme of
some of the greatest writers, living and dead – but which has never been, and can never be, exhausted,
because it is a subject eternally interesting to all mankind. Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a
human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil, which we have all felt, which we have all
known. It has been my aim to make the character of “Magdalen,” which personifies this struggle, a pathetic character
even in its perversity and its error; and I have tried hard to attain this result by the least obtrusive and the least
artificial of all means – by a resolute adherence throughout to the truth as it is in Nature. This design was no
easy one to accomplish; and it has been a great encouragement to me (during the publication of my story in its
periodical form) to know, on the authority of many readers, that the object which I had proposed to myself, I
might, in some degree, consider as an object achieved.
Round the central figure in the narrative other characters will be found grouped, in sharp contrast – contrast, for
the most part, in which I have endeavored to make the element of humor mainly predominant. I have sought to
impart this relief to the more serious passages in the book, not only because I believe myself to be justified in
doing so by the laws of Art – but because experience has taught me (what the experience of my readers will
doubtless confirm) that there is no such moral phenomenon as unmixed tragedy to be found in the world
around us. Look where we may, the dark threads and the light cross each other perpetually in the texture of
human life.
What selection best identifies the device utilized as a whole in the opening first paragraph?