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Practice Test 3Section I: Multiple-Choice QuestionsTime: 60 minutes55 questionsDirections: This section consists of selections from prose works and questions on their content, form, and style. Readeach selection carefully. Choose the best answer of the five choices.Questions 1–15. Read the following passage carefully before you begin to answer the questions.First Passage(5)(10)(15)(20)(25)(30)At Oxford in 1850 the contemporaries of youngRobert Cecil agreed that he would end as PrimeMinister either because or in spite of his remorselessly uncompromising opinions. Throughout lifehe never bothered to restrain them. His youthfulspeeches were remarkable for their virulence andinsolence; he was not, said Disraeli, “a man whomeasures his phrases.” A “salisbury” becamea synonym for a political imprudence. He oncecompared the Irish in their incapacity for selfgovernment to Hottentots and spoke of an Indiancandidate for Parliament as “that black man.” In theopinion of Lord Morley his speeches were always apleasure to read because “they were sure to containone blazing indiscretion which it is a delight toremember.” Whether these were altogether accidental is open to question, for though Lord Salisburydelivered his speeches without notes, they wereworked out in his head beforehand and emergedclear and perfect in sentence structure. In that timethe art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman and anyone reading from awritten speech would have been regarded as pitiable. When Lord Salisbury spoke, “every sentence,”said a fellow member, “seemed essential, as articulate, as vital to the argument as the members of hisbody to an athlete.”Appearing in public before an audience aboutwhom he cared nothing, Salisbury was awkward;but in the Upper House, where he addressed hisequals, he was perfectly and strikingly at home. Hespoke sonorously, with an occasional change oftone to icy mockery or withering sarcasm. When a(35)(40)(45)(50)(55)(60)(65)recently ennobled Whig took the floor to lecturethe House of Lords in high-flown and solemn Whigsentiments, Salisbury asked a neighbor who thespeaker was and on hearing the whispered identification, replied perfectly audibly, “I thought he wasdead.” When he listened to others he could becomeeasily bored, revealed by a telltale wagging of hisleg which seemed to one observer to be saying,“When will all this be over?” Or sometimes, raising his heels off the floor, he would set up a sustained quivering of his knees and legs which couldlast for half an hour at a time. At home, when maderestless by visitors, it shook the floor and made thefurniture rattle, and in the House his colleagues onthe front bench complained it made them seasick.If his legs were at rest his long fingers would be inmotion, incessantly twisting and turning a paperknife or beating a tattoo on his knee or on the armof his chair. . . .Mr. Gladstone, though, in political philosophyhis bitterest antagonist, acknowledged him “a greatgentleman in private society.” In private life he wasdelightful and sympathetic and a complete contrast to his public self. In public acclaim, Salisburywas uninterested, for—since the populace wasuninstructed—its opinions, as far as he was concerned, were worthless. He ignored the public andneither possessed nor tried to cultivate the personaltouch that makes a political leader a recognizablepersonality to the man in the street and earns him anickname like “Pam” or “Dizzy” or the “Grand OldMan.” Not in the press, not even in Punch, wasLord Salisbury ever called anything but LordGO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE165
Part VI: Six Full-Length Practice Tests(70)(75)(80)Salisbury. He made no attempt to conceal his dislike for mobs of all kinds, “not excluding theHouse of Commons.” After moving to the Lords,he never returned to the Commons to listen to itsdebates from the Peers Gallery or chat with members in the Lobby, and if compelled to allude tothem in his own House, would use a tone of airycontempt, to the amusement of visitors from theCommons who came to hear him. But this wasmerely an outward pose designed to underline hisdeep inner sense of the patrician. He was not rankconscious; he was indifferent to honors or anyother form of recognition. It was simply that as aCecil, and a superior one, he was born with a consciousness in his bones and brain cells of ability torule and saw no reason to make any concessions ofthis prescriptive right to anyone whatever.1. In relation to the passage as a whole, the firstsentence of the first paragraph presentsA.B.C.D.E.a paradox that reveals a dominantcharacteristic of Lord Salisbury’s charactera criticism of Lord Salisbury that the rest ofthe passage will withdrawa definition of the principles upon whichLord Salisbury was to base his lifean exception to the ideas that make up therest of the passagean amusing comment with no importantrelevance to the development of the rest ofthe passage2. Disraeli’s description of Lord Salisbury as not “aman who measure his phrases” (lines 7–8) is anexample ofA.B.C.D.E.166simileunderstatementindirect discoursead hominem argumentdiatribeHaving entered the House of Commons in thecustomary manner for peers’ sons, from a familycontrolled borough in an uncontested election atthe age of twenty-three, and, during his fifteenyears in the House of Commons, having been returned unopposed five times from the same bor(90) ough, and having for the last twenty-seven years satin the House of Lords, he had little personal experience of vote-getting. He regarded himself not as responsible to the people but as responsible for them.They were in his care. What reverence he felt for(95) anyone was directed not down but up—to themonarchy. He revered Queen Victoria, who wassome ten years his senior, both as her subject and,with chivalry toward her womanhood, as a man.For her he softened his brusqueness even if at(100) Balmoral he could not conceal his boredom.(85)3. Compared to the second, third, and fourthparagraphs, the first paragraph makes moreextensive use ofA.B.C.D.E.direct quotations from Lord Salisburyhimselfdirect quotations from Lord Salisbury’scontemporariescause-and-effect reasoningad hominem argumentabstract generalizations4. Which of the following best describes the functionof the second paragraph of the passage?A.B.C.D.E.It makes an assertion that is proven in thethird paragraph.It defines more clearly the flaws of LordSalisbury’s character.It develops the ideas of Lord Salisbury’s“political imprudence.”It enlarges the characterization begun in thefirst paragraph.It refutes a common misconception aboutLord Salisbury.
Practice Test 35. We can infer that Salisbury was awkward beforean audience he cared little about (paragraph two)because heA.B.C.D.E.was speaking without noteslacked public-speaking skillshad not bothered to preparewas nervous about appearing before anaudience that he feared was unsympathetic tohis ideasfeared he would betray his real feelings ofcontempt6. In line 51, the word “tattoo” can be best definedas aA.B.C.D.E.rhythmcontinuous drummingpicture on the skinforbidden activitypercussion instrument7. In the first sentence of the third paragraph, thespeaker cites Gladstone’s words about LordSalisbury becauseI.II.III.A.B.C.D.E.they have the special authority of words ofpraise from a political opponentthey introduce a favorable presentation ofLord Salisbury’s private lifeit would especially embarrass Lord Salisburyto be praised by a political enemyII onlyI and II onlyI and III onlyII and III onlyI, II, and IIIA.B.C.D.E.A.B.C.D.E.“simply”“and brain cells”“no reason”“any”“whatever”10. Which of the following accurately describe(s) thelong sentence which begins the last paragraph ofthe passage (“Having entered . . . vote-getting”)?I.III.It is a sentence containing more than tenprepositional phrases.It is a sentence using parallel participialphrases.It is a periodic sentence.A.B.C.D.E.I onlyI and II onlyI and III onlyII and III onlyI, II, and IIIII.11. To which of the following would Lord Salisburyhave been most likely to have shown deference?A.B.C.D.E.the Prince of Walesthe President of the United Statesthe elderly female newspaper-sellerthe British Prime Ministera Scottish knight12. The speaker of the passage may be bestdescribed asA.B.C.D.E.a skeptical biographera political supportera sympathetic observera mordant satiristan objective commentatorPractice Test 38. From the phrase in the third paragraph “not in thepress, not even in Punch, was Lord Salisbury evercalled anything but Lord Salisbury,” we can inferthat Punch was probably a9. In the last sentence of the third paragraph, all ofthe following words or phrases function asintensifiers and could be omitted EXCEPTcontemporary novelpolitical reportconservative magazinesatirical publicationdaily newspaperGO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE167
Part VI: Six Full-Length Practice Tests13. In its presentation of the character of LordSalisbury, the passage overtly employs all of thefollowing sources EXCEPT theA.B.C.D.E.words of contemporary politiciansauthor’s interpretation of Lord Salisbury’sactionswords of Lord Salisbury himselfjudgments of other modern historianswords of unnamed contemporaries of LordSalisbury14. Which of the following does the passage presentas central to an understanding of Lord Salisbury?A.B.C.D.E.168his deep-seated fear of the possibility ofmajor social changehis intense consciousness of his social rankhis hypocrisyhis genuine respect for men and women ofall classeshis firm belief in the native superiority of hisfamily15. The passage reveals all of the followingbiographical facts about Lord Salisbury EXCEPTthat heA.B.C.D.E.served in the House of Commonswas a contemporary of Queen Victoria and ofGladstonedisapproved of home rule for Irelandserved in the House of Lordsbecame Prime Minister late in the 19thcentury
Practice Test 3Questions 16–28. Read the following passage carefully before you begin to answer the questions.Second PassageTo Archibald Forbes1[20 January 1882] Arlington Hotel, Washington(5)Dear Mr. Forbes, I felt quite sure that your remarks on me had been misrepresented. I must however say that yourremarks about me in your lecture may be regarded as giving some natural ground for the report. I feel bound tosay quite frankly to you that I do not consider them to be either in good taste or appropriate to your subject.I have something to say to the American people, something that I know will be the beginning of a great movementhere, and all foolish ridicule does a great deal of harm to the cause of art and refinement and civilisation here.I do not think that your lecture will lose in brilliancy or interest by expunging the passage, which is, as you sayyourself, poor fooling enough.(10)You have to speak of the life of action, I of the life of art. Our subjects are quite distinct and should be kept so.Believe me, yours truly, OSCAR WILDETo Archibald ForbesMonday [23 January 1882] Arlington Hotel, Washington(15)(20)(25)Dear Mr. Forbes, Colonel Morse2, who kindly manages for me a somewhat bulky correspondence, tells me thatyou feel yourself wronged by something I am supposed to have said of you in the papers, and that you have written to me in, natural I acknowledge, indignation on the subject. He has sent the letter to Mr Carte without myreading it, as he considers that Mr Carte can best answer those parts of it relating to my intended visit toBaltimore. In any case let me assure you that I have neither spoken of you to anyone except as I would speak of aman whose chivalry, whose personal bravery, and whose pluck, have won him the respect and the admiration ofall honest men in Europe and in America, and who has given to English journalism the new lustre of action, ofadventure and of courage. I did not believe what I read in the papers about you, that you had spoken of me in asneering way behind my back. I in fact denied it to a reporter who came here with the story on Thursday nightlate, I do not think you should have believed it of me. It is true you hardly know me at all personally, but at leastyou know me well enough to come and ask me personally if, after your generous letter to me, I had said of youthings which seem to you ungenerous and unfair and untrue. The only papers I have seen about the subject are theHerald and World. Miss Meigs whom I had the honour of meeting last night tells me that some garbled interviewappeared in the Post which contained certain foolish things supposed to have proceeded from me. I have not seenthe paper at all, or I would have written to you at once about it. [The rest of this letter is missing.]Forbes had answered Wilde’s letters of 20 and 23 January as follows:26 January 1882 46 West 28 Street, New YorkDear Mr. Wilde, It has a tendency to create confusion when a man does not read important letters addressed tohimself, and there is yet greater risk of this when he essays to reply to them on a summary given him apparentlywithout a due realisation of their personal significance to him.(35)I accept your disclamation of the remarks in connection with me which your letter states to have been put intoyour mouth without warrant.GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE169Practice Test 3(30)
Part VI: Six Full-Length Practice TestsBut it was not of these remarks which my letter complained. What the letter protested against wasFirst: the claim set up by you in your letter of Friday last, that I should trim a lecture of mine to suit your sensitiveness to an inoffensive effort at humour; and(40)Secondly and chiefly—with the knowledge I have, and which you know I have, of the utterly mercenary aim ofyour visit to America, the possibility of my accepting your pretensions put forward in the same letter as follows:‘I have something to say to the American people, something that I know will be the beginning of a great movement; and all foolish ridicule does a great deal of harm to the cause of art, refinement and civilisation here.’It is no affair of mine to whom else you may choose to advance these pretensions; but I must utterly decline to allowyou to address them to me, for the reasons given at length in my letter which you have not thought proper to read.(45)(50)Your letter of Monday, with its irrelevant expressions of cordiality, cannot affect the situation. What I have to askis that you withdraw, as obviously offensive to me, the whole of your letter of Friday, and that you do so categorically, and in so many words, with the exception of the first sentence of it.As it is irksome to me that the matter should hang over, I must demand that you send me a letter containing thewithdrawal specified, by Sunday next. In the event of my non-receipt thereof, I beg to intimate to you that I willprint the whole correspondence in a New York paper of Monday morning. I am faithfully yours,ARCHIBALD FORBES.1British war correspondent and author (1838–1900). He was also lecturing in the States at this time, wearing all his medals, and had small sympathy with Wilde’s ideas on aesthetics and dress reform. It had been reported that Wilde would attend Forbes’s lecture at Baltimore on 19 January, butthe two men quarreled on the train from Philadelphia and Wilde went straight on to Washington without stopping at Baltimore. Both Forbes and theleaders of Baltimore Society were offended. The passage in Forbes’s lecture to which Wilde objected described a visit to the Czar in war-tornBulgaria: “I glanced down at my clothes, which I had not changed in a fortnight, and in which I had ridden 150 miles. Now I wish it understood thatI am a follower, an humble follower, of the aesthetic ecstasy, but I did not look much like an art object then. I did not have my dogskin kneebreeches with me, nor my velvet coat, and my black silk stockings were full of holes. Neither was the wild, barren waste of Bulgaria congenial to thegrowth of sunflowers and lilies.”2D’Oyly Carte’s representative in America.16. Wilde’s choice to italicize “in your lecture”(line 4) indicates thatA.B.C.E.D.Wilde is willing to disregard Forbes’s writtencorrespondenceformal presentations deserve accuracyWilde is determined to retaliate in his ownlecturesWilde capriciously decided to chastiseForbeschance meetings can instill misperceptions17. Wilde suggests that Forbes do all of the followingEXCEPTA.B.C.D.E.170delete the offending passage from his lectureallow each man to speak to the Americanpeopleuse stronger discretion in his lecture remarkscontinue speaking on subjects he knows wellreword the section of his lecture thatdiscusses Wilde18. Both letter writers employ all of the flowingdevices EXCEPTA.B.C.D.E.parallel structurethinly veiled innuendofalse praisedirect reference to offending remarksa defiant tone19. All of the following can be inferred aboutAmerican journalism of the 1880s EXCEPTA.B.C.D.E.newspapers published libelnewspapers were used as vehicles ofpersonal correspondencejournalistic integrity was paramountanyone could easily get something printedquicklythe public believed what was published
Practice Test 320. The pronoun “it” in Wilde’s remark “I do not thinkyou should have believed it of me” (line 23) mostlikely refers toA.B.C.D.E.Forbes’s talking about Wilde behind his backthe paper’s reporting the two men’s argumentWilde’s supposedly sneering remarks aboutForbesWilde’s capacity for chivalry and personalbraverythe harm done by “foolish ridicule” (line 7)24. Note #1 serves the rhetorical purpose ofA.B.C.D.E.21. Forbes’s use of the word “essays” as a verb (line32) serves as aA.B.C.D.E.symbolic gesture of support for Wilde’swritinghyperbolic display of Forbes’s angermetaphor of Wilde’s body of workplay on words regarding Wilde’scorrespondence with Forbesdemonstration of Forbes’s linguistic prowess22. The attitude of each author can best bedescribed asA.B.C.D.E.condescending to the other and convinced ofhis own moral superiorityhopeful that they can come to an agreementand put this past misunderstanding behindthemfearful that their reputation will bepermanently tarnishedcomplacent about future encounters theymay havesincere in their effort to mend pastdisagreements23. Wilde would most likely object to the quotationfrom Forbes’s lecture in note #1 because itC.D.E.is a direct attack on Wilde’s pacifismis a poorly written description of thecountrysidedenigrates Wilde’s antiwar positionpresumes that Wilde would never participatein a waris a disguised attack on Wilde’s notions ofdress reform and aesthetics25. The series of letters display all of the followingrhetorical techniques EXCEPTA.B.C.D.E.ad hominem argumentdirect references to perceived slightsinnuendo involving other acquaintancesdirect condescension regarding appearanceapologetic rebuttal to previous accusations26. Wilde’s letter of January 23 and Forbes’s replydiffer in thatA.B.C.D.E.Forbes is direct and confrontational; Wilde isconversational and explanatoryForbes is willing to forget their pastdisagreement; Wilde insists on bringing it uprepeatedlyWilde takes responsibility for his actionswhile Forbes deflects the blameWilde anticipates an amicable end to theirdispute; Forbes believes it will continueWilde makes logical, step-by-step assertions;Forbes meanders to his point27. Wilde’s second letter differs rhetorically from hisfirst in that the secondA.B.C.D.E.systematically outlines his pointsshows respect for Forbes’s ideasattacks Forbes more directlybecomes less assertive and aggressivecondescends to flatter ForbesPractice Test 3A.B.summarizing Forbes’s argument about theneed for warjuxtaposing what Forbes perceives as seriousissues, namely “war-torn Bulgaria” withtrivial matters, namely Wilde’spreoccupation with clothingproviding a logical completion to Forbes’shumorous anecdoteserving as an incentive for Wilde to respondallowing Forbes a chance to repeat hiscriticism of WildeGO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE171
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Lord Salisbury’s private life III. it would especially embarrass Lord Salisbury to be praised by a political enemy A. II only B. I and II only C. I and III only D. II and III only E. I, II, and III 8. From the phrase in the third paragraph “not in the press, not even in Punch, was Lord Salisbury ever called anything but Lord Salisbury .
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