Question 1

(1) If your favorite rock star asked you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?

(2) Of course not; no way!

(3) You would tell the rock star to take his money.

(4) Then go back to his mansion, and stuff it.

(5) You make your own decisions; the idea of risking your life on the whim of a famous singer is just plain

nonsense.

(6) Even if you truly adore music, it is not a factor that dictates your every move.

(7) Some young people would do anything for a particular music performer.

(8) They would flock to jump off the bridge if their favorite music icon asked them to do so.

(9) Because popular music, more than any other aspect of youth culture, holds an extremely powerful clutch on

its very impressionable audience.

(10) Occasionally that clutch can have a positive effect.

(11) For example, some artists put forth positive messages.

(12) More often, however, the messages in popular songs are destructive.

(13) Children require guidance, and they are easily fooled by music that provides either false hope or

hopelessness.

(14) Adults need to learn about popular music to know which performers preach a positive (or at least

harmless) message and those that can be truly destructive to a young person’s life.

(15) This is a tough job.

(16) But it is an important job.

Which of the following is the best way to revise sentence 2?

Options :

A : (No change)

B : Change the semicolon to an exclamation point and capitalize “no”

C : Change the semicolon to a comma

D : Change the semicolon to a period and omit “no way!”

E : Change the exclamation point to a period

Answer: D

Question 2

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark,” Aylmer commits a fatal error when his

Options :

A : faith in science causes him to try to improve on nature

B : disapproval of church leaders weakens his faith in God

C : hand shakes during surgery

D : greed causes him to lose his business

E : trust in his assistant brings about failure

Answer: A

Question 3

For I have known them all already, known them all: –

Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;

I know the voices dying with a dying fall

Beneath the music from a farther room.

So how should I presume?

And I have known the eyes already, known them all –

The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,

And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,

When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,

Then how should I begin

To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?

And how should I presume?

The imagery of lines 57-58 is borrowed from what hobby?

Options :

A : Sewing

B : Insect collecting

C : Wrestling

D : Pennant collecting

E : Flower arranging

Answer: B

Question 4

(1) Music improvisation is thought to be a modern phenomenon specific to jazz and other popular genres.

(2) However, improvisation has existed since the very inception of music itself, long before the relatively recent

practice of composition or even notation.

(3) Early music did not play into the dichotomy of improvised versus composed; rather, the earliest musical

creations were simply performed.

(4) Much like speaking, the performers put forth what came to mind.

(5) Their creations may have followed a pattern, especially in functional settings such as hunting or storytelling.

(6) As dance became inherently linked to music, simple musical forms emerged.

(7) Nevertheless, melody and rhythm were created at the discretion of the performer and rarely sounded the

same in any given performance.

(8) Even Western classical music – the epitome of composed music – had improvisational roots. (9) Early

church pieces are noted with a few dots and lines, which barely serve as skeletons for the florid and complex

vocalizations of monks and other church singers.

(10) Even with the advent of modern musical notation, improvisation was at the core of European musical style.

(11) J. S. Bach, for example, improvised entire church ceremonies on the organ.

(12) Mozart was a great improviser, as well.

(13) In fact, Bach only began to notate compositions when others took interest in his music, or when he

composed for large ensembles.

(14) One can only imagine how music history might have changed had audio recorders been available to

capture the improvisations of those masters of music composition.

Which of the following statements best summarizes the author’s thesis?

Options :

A : Music historians are wrong about their views on improvisation

B : People like Bach and Mozart should have recorded their improvisations.

C : More composers should use improvisation in their music.

D : Improvisation has been integral to music for a long time.

E : Music improvisation is more important than music composition.

Answer: D

Question 5

I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written: – mean the law copyists or scriveners. The sentence above was written by

Options :

A : Herman Melville

B : Margaret Fuller

C : Rebecca Harding Davis

D : Walt Whitman

E : George Washington Harris

Answer: A

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