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Read the passages "'Exploring a Cave' from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," and answer the questions that follow. Make sure you answer all of the questions.

Passage 1: "Exploring a Cave" from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 1 Three miles below town the ferryboat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up. The crowd swarmed ashore and soon the forest distances and craggy heights echoed far and near with shoutings and laughter. All the different ways of getting hot and tired were gone through with, and by-and-by the rovers straggled back to camp fortified with responsible appetites, and then the destruction of the good things began. After the feast there was a refreshing season of rest and chat in the shade of spreading oaks. By-and-by somebody shouted: "Who's ready for the cave?" 2 Everybody was. Bundles of candles were procured, and straightway there was a general scamper up the hill. The mouth of the cave was up the hillsidean opening shaped like a letter A. Its massive oaken door stood unbarred. Within was a small chamber, chilly as an icehouse, and walled by Nature with solid limestone that was dewy with a cold sweat. It was romantic and mysterious to stand here in the deep gloom and look out upon the green valley shining in the sun. But the impressiveness of the situation quickly wore off, and the romping began again. The moment a candle was lighted there was a general rush upon the owner of it; a struggle and a gallant defense followed, but the candle was soon knocked down or blown out, and then there was a glad clamor of laughter and a new chase. 3 But all things have an end. By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead. This main avenue was not more than eight or ten feet wide. Every few steps other lofty and still narrower crevices branched from it on either handfor McDougal's cave was but a vast labyrinth of crooked aisles that ran into each other and out again and led nowhere. 4 It was said that one might wander days and nights together through its intricate tangle of rifts and chasms, and never find the end of the cave; and that he might go down, and down, and still down, into the earth, and it was just the samelabyrinth under labyrinth, and no end to any of them. 5 No man knew the cave. That was an impossible thing. Most of the young men knew a portion of it, and it was not customary to venture much beyond this known portion. Tom Sawyer knew as much of the cave as any one. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. In the public domain. Passage 2: from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

6 I felt myself propelled into a little room adjoining the wardrobe. Towed in the same way, my companions went with me. I heard a door with watertight seals close after us, and we were surrounded by profound darkness.

7 After some minutes a sharp hissing reached my ears. I felt a distinct sensation of cold rising from my feet to my chest. Apparently a stopcock inside the boat was letting in water from outside, which overran us and soon filled up the room. Contrived in the Nautilus's side, a second door then opened. We were lit by a subdued light. An instant later our feet were treading the bottom of the sea.

8 And now, how can I convey the impressions left on me by this stroll under the waters? Words are powerless to describe such wonders! When even the painter's brush can't depict the effects unique to the liquid element, how can the writer's pen hope to reproduce them? 9 Captain Nemo walked in front, and his companion followed us a few steps to the rear. Conseil and I stayed next to each other, as if daydreaming that through our metal carapaces, a little polite conversation might still be possible! Already I no longer felt the bulkiness of my clothes, footwear, and air tank, nor the weight of the heavy sphere inside which my head was rattling like an almond in its shell. Once immersed in water, all these objects lost a part of their weight equal to the weight of the liquid they displaced, and thanks to this law of physics discovered by Archimedes, I did just fine. I was no longer an inert mass, and I had, comparatively speaking, great freedom of movement. 10 Lighting up the seafloor even thirty feet beneath the surface of the ocean, the sun astonished me with its power. The solar rays easily crossed this aqueous mass and dispersed its dark colors. I could easily distinguish objects 100 meters away. Farther on, the bottom was tinted with fine shades of ultramarine; then, off in the distance, it turned blue and faded in the midst of a hazy darkness. Truly, this water surrounding me was just a kind of air, denser than the atmosphere on land but almost as transparent. Above me I could see the calm surface of the ocean. 11 We were walking on sand that was fine-grained and smooth, not wrinkled like beach sand, which preserves the impressions left by the waves. This dazzling carpet was a real mirror, throwing back the sun's rays with startling intensity. The outcome: an immense vista of reflections that penetrated every liquid molecule. Will anyone believe me if I assert that at this thirty-foot depth, I could see as if it was broad daylight? . . . 12 Meanwhile we went ever onward, and these vast plains of sand seemed endless. Myhands parted liquid curtains that closed again behind me, and my footprints faded swiftly under the water's pressure. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. In the public domain. Now answer the questions. Base your answers on the passages "'Exploring a Cave' from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."

What is one important difference between the passages?

A.

Tom Sawyer had access to more light than the narrator of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

B.

What happens in the excerpt from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is more realistic than what happens in the excerpt from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

C.

The setting of "'Exploring a Cave' from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is more frightening than the setting of the excerpt from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

D.

The excerpt from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer does not include the climax of the adventure it tells, while the excerpt from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea likely does