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Section 6
Practice Test Four
12. Which statement best describes a significant
difference between the authors' interpretations
of population increase and its relationship to the
Industrial Revolution?
(A) Author 1 maintains that a growing population
was not a major factor in the revolution;
Author 2 maintains that it was a prerequisite.
(B) Author 1 emphasizes that it was a main
cause; Author 2 claims that it had no effect
on the revolution.
( C) Author 1 states that it was one of the major
factors; Author 2 claims that it was important
for setting the stage, but was not the main
catalyst.
(D) Author 1 contends that population growth
was greatest in the more industrialized
regions; Author 2 maintains that population
growth was suppressed in those areas.
(E) Author 1 believes the relationship has been
distorted; Author 2 believes it has been overemphasized.
Questions 13-24 are based on the following passages.
The following passages both consider the relationship
between literature and film. Passage 1 is from an essay in
a literary magazine; Passage 2 comes from an essay
written by an independent filmmaker for a book on
contemporary cinema.
Passage I
When we sit down to read a good book, we
rarely take pause to contemplate the wonder of
the act we are performing. In the case of true lit­
Line erature, at least, reading is not simply the process
(5) of scanning a series of symbols on a page and trying
to mentally encode the information they represent;
it is a much more organic experience. As
the words flow into our minds, we are continually
piecing together a strange and unique universe
(1 O) that is a fusion of our own world, the characters',
and the author's. Unlike the marks on the page,
which appear the same to everyone, the stories
that form in our minds are curiously personal
concoctions; no two readers' experiences are ever
(15) quite alike.
This process is what author J. R. R. Tolkien
referred to as "sub-creation," and it is a fundamental
and particular property of the written
word. Tolkien himself would likely have been
(20) horrified at the recent series of movies based on
his Lord of the Rings novels, despite their success
and critical acclaim; he believed that the ability to
visualize characters and scenes for oneself was the
right and privilege of the reader alone. I cannot
(25} help but agree, for anytime a filmmaker shares his
inner vision of a book with you, he simultaneously
robs you of your own. Try as you might, you'll
never quite regain the pure, personal image of a
story you once had; it will forever be tarnished
(30) with vestiges of the figures you saw on the silver
screen.
Now, I do not mean to say that movies are no
good, nor even that it is impossible to make a
good movie based on a book; I simply wish
(35) filmmakers were more aware of the way their
adaptations degrade the public's enjoyment of
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