182 ❯ STEP 5. Build Your Test-Taking Confidence
- The last sentence of paragraph 2, “From all
these scraps.. .” to “forbidden knowledge,”
contains all of the following except:
A. parallel structure
B. a periodic sentence
C. prepositional phrases
D. a compound-complex sentence
E. an ellipsis - The phrase “forbidden knowledge” in the last
sentence of the second paragraph can best be
categorized as
A. a paradox
B. a biblical allusion
C. hyperbole
D. antithesis
E. understatement - According to the author, the writer is like a
child because
A. “We are likely to accept these stories being
of the same level of reality as the kitchen
stories” [paragraph 4]
B. “... we are taught to regard one kind of
story as real.. .” [paragraph 4, next to
last line]
C. “We remained tale-bearers” [paragraph 3]
D. “We will have old husbands’ tales”
[paragraph 5]
E. “... the kinds of stories that are told to
children have been called nursery tales.. .”
[paragraph 5] - A careful reading of the last two paragraphs of
the excerpt can lead the reader to infer that
A. society does not value the storyteller
B. women should be the storytellers
C. storytelling should be left to children
D. men can never be storytellers
E. the author is a mother herself
17. The predominant tone of the passage is best
stated as
A. scathingly bitter
B. sweetly effusive
C. reverently detailed
D. wistfully observant
E. aggressively judgmental
18. The author makes use of which of the
following rhetorical strategies?
A. narration and description
B. exposition and persuasion
C. process and analysis
D. anecdote and argument
E. cause and effect
19. A shift in the focus of the passage occurs with
which of the following?
A. “If we’re lucky” [paragraph 4]
B. “Perhaps this is what writers
are.. .” [paragraph 3]
C. “Traditionally,.. .” [paragraph 5]
D. “Perhaps this reflects the extent to
which North American children have
been deprived of the grandfathers.. .”
[paragraph 5]
E. “But as things are, language, including the
language of the earliest-learned stories.. .”
[paragraph 5]
20. The primary purpose of the passage is to
A. plead for men to tell more stories
B. criticize censorship
C. idealize children
D. analyze storytelling
E. look at the sources of storytelling