QUESTION 5

1. Directions: Passage B is the story of a child’s first Halloweenparade. Read the passage carefully. Answer the questions thatfollow.
   
   Passage B
   
   “I am six years old. It is Halloween. The school is having itsannual Halloween parade. All the kids will march a few blocksthrough the neighborhood.
   
   ‘Just buy him a costume,’ my father says. ‘They have’em at thefive-and-dime.’
   
   But no, my mother decided, since this is my first parade, she willmake me a costume: the mummy, my favorite scary character.
   
   She cuts up white rags and old towels, and wraps them around me,holding them in place with safety pins. Then she layers the ragswith toilet paper and tape. It takes a long time, but when she isfinished, I look in the mirror. I am a mummy. I lift my shouldersand sway back and forth.
   
   ‘Oooh, you’re very scary,’ my mother says.
   
   She drives me to school. We start our parade. The more I walk, thelooser the rags get. Then, about two blocks out, it begins to rain.Next thing I know, the toilet paper is dissolving. The rags droop.Soon they fall to my ankles, wrists, and neck, and you can see myundershirt and pajama bottoms, which my mother thought would makebetter undergarments.
   
   ‘Look at Charley!’ the other kids squeal. They are laughing. I amburning red. I want to disappear, but where do you go in the middleof a parade?
   
   When we reach the school yard, where the parents are waiting withcameras, I am a wet, sagging mess of rags and toilet paperfragments. I see my mother first. As she spots me, she raises herhand to her mouth. I burst into tears.
   
   ‘You ruined my life!’ I yell.” (from For One More Day, a novelby Mitch Albom)
   
   Through indirect characterization the author reveals that themother is ___.

   		creative, attentive and sorry
   		argumentative, talkative but funny
   		embarrassed and agreeable
   		careless and impatient

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QUESTION 6

1. Directions: Passage B is the story of a child’s first Halloweenparade. Read the passage carefully. Answer the questions thatfollow.
   
   Passage B
   
   “I am six years old. It is Halloween. The school is having itsannual Halloween parade. All the kids will march a few blocksthrough the neighborhood.
   
   ‘Just buy him a costume,’ my father says. ‘They have’em at thefive-and-dime.’
   
   But no, my mother decided, since this is my first parade, she willmake me a costume: the mummy, my favorite scary character.
   
   She cuts up white rags and old towels, and wraps them around me,holding them in place with safety pins. Then she layers the ragswith toilet paper and tape. It takes a long time, but when she isfinished, I look in the mirror. I am a mummy. I lift my shouldersand sway back and forth.
   
   ‘Oooh, you’re very scary,’ my mother says.
   
   She drives me to school. We start our parade. The more I walk, thelooser the rags get. Then, about two blocks out, it begins to rain.Next thing I know, the toilet paper is dissolving. The rags droop.Soon they fall to my ankles, wrists, and neck, and you can see myundershirt and pajama bottoms, which my mother thought would makebetter undergarments.
   
   ‘Look at Charley!’ the other kids squeal. They are laughing. I amburning red. I want to disappear, but where do you go in the middleof a parade?
   
   When we reach the school yard, where the parents are waiting withcameras, I am a wet, sagging mess of rags and toilet paperfragments. I see my mother first. As she spots me, she raises herhand to her mouth. I burst into tears.
   
   ‘You ruined my life!’ I yell.” (from For One More Day, a novelby Mitch Albom)
   
   Which of the following represents the denouement of the story?

   		“I burst into tears.”
   		“We start our parade.”
   		“It is Halloween.”
   		“‘Just buy him a costume,’ my father says.”

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QUESTION 7

1. “We do not realize that love is just a further impetus, notsomething that will prevent us going forward. We do not realizethat those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy andprepare to accompany us on that journey.”
   
   Which of the following quotes illustrates one of the author’sideas?

   		“[The boy] thought of all the married shepherds he had known.They had a difficult time convincing their wives that they had togo off into the distant fields. Love required them to stay with thepeople they loved.”
   		“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a centralrole in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t knowit.”
   		“I’m only interested in the present. If you can alwaysconcentrate on the present, you’ll be a happy man. You’ll see thatthere is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens,and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the humanrace.”
   		“Now, I’m beginning what I could have started ten years ago. ButI’m happy at least that I didn’t wait twenty years.”