Chapter 14 Practice Test 4 With Answers - Mcgraw-Hill'S Psat/nmsqt Page 8
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GRAW-HILL’S PSAT/NMSQT
C
B
The primary purpose of the first paragraph is to
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The questions below are based on the content
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(A) describe a particular challenge to writers
of the preceding passage. The questions are to
z
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be answered on the basis of what is stated or
(B) define a problem in the teaching of
literature
implied in the passage itself or the introduc-
tory material that precedes the passage.
(C) distinguish between two modes of
literature
(D) refute a common theory of art
Questions 16–24 are based on the
(E) criticize a particular kind of writing
following passage.
The following passage is an excerpt from an
B
As it is used in line 21, “nondramatic” most
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American novel written in 1922.
nearly means
Line
His morning was not
sharply marked into
(A) uninteresting
divisions. Interwoven with correspondence
(B) instantaneous
and advertisement-writing were a thousand
(C) derivative
nervous details: calls from clerks who were
(D) poorly written
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incessantly and
hopefully seeking five furnished
(E) nontheatrical
rooms and bath at sixty dollars a month; advice
to Mat Penniman on getting money out of
tenants who had no money.
B
The “reflection” mentioned in line 15 refers
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Babbitt’s virtues as a real-estate broker—as
most directly to a consideration of
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the servant
of society in the department of
(A) whether or not the events in a play are
finding homes for families and shops for
real
distributors of food—were steadiness and
(B) the quality of the writing in a particular
diligence. He was conventionally honest, he
work of literature
kept his records of buyers and sellers complete,
(C) how human beings express emotion
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he had experience
with leases and titles and an
(D) the degree to which an author of a play
excellent memory for prices. His shoulders
was involved in its production
were broad enough, his voice deep enough, his
(E) the meaning of a particular symbol in a
relish of hearty humor strong enough, to
piece of literature
establish him as one of the ruling caste of Good
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Fellows.
Yet his eventual importance to
mankind was perhaps lessened by his large and
B
The sentence beginning on line 66 (“But this
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complacent ignorance of all architecture save
is no weak or second-best thing”) is a
the types of houses turned out by speculative
response to those who believe that
builders; all landscape gardening save the use
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of curving roads,
grass, and six ordinary
(A) human
beings
are
fundamentally
shrubs; and all the commonest axioms of
brutish
economics. He serenely believed that the one
(B) fiction is a more effective mode of litera-
purpose of the real-estate business was to make
ture than poetry is
money for George F. Babbitt. True, it was a
(C) real experiences are not worth writing
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good advertisement
at Boosters’ Club lunches,
about
and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to
(D) literature is less salient than real
which Good Fellows were invited, to speak
experience
sonorously of Unselfish Public Service, the
(E) the quality of modern literature is
Broker’s Obligation to Keep Inviolate the Trust
declining
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of His Clients, and a
thing called Ethics, whose
nature was confusing but if you had it you were
a High-class Realtor and if you hadn’t you were
B
The final sentence of the paragraph suggests
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a shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night. These
that the central purpose of literature is to be
virtues awakened Confidence, and enabled you
(A) entertaining
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to handle Bigger
Propositions. But they didn’t
(B) polemical
imply that you were to be impractical and
(C) comforting
refuse to take twice the value of a house if a
(D) instructive
buyer was such an idiot that he didn’t bargain
(E) conciliatory
you down on the asking-price.
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