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Section 6<br />

Practice Test Four<br />

15. The sentence in lines 16---19 ("This . .. word.")<br />

suggests that <strong>the</strong> author of Passage 1 believes that<br />

(A) <strong>the</strong> reader's imaginative process is less noble<br />

than that of <strong>the</strong> writer<br />

(B) writing is <strong>the</strong> only art <strong>for</strong>m that truly occupies<br />

one's intellect<br />

(C) Tolkien would never have written his books if<br />

he knew <strong>the</strong>y would be made into movies<br />

(D) <strong>the</strong> act of reading necessarily engages <strong>the</strong><br />

imagination of <strong>the</strong> reader<br />

(E) any piece of good writing requires <strong>the</strong> reader<br />

to conjure up lifelike scenes in his or her<br />

mind<br />

16. Which of <strong>the</strong> following situations would<br />

involve <strong>the</strong> same kind of "inner vision" (line 26)<br />

mentioned in Passage 1?<br />

(A) A screenwriter pens a story inspired by deeply<br />

personal memories known only to himself.<br />

(B) A serious writer takes a break from her<br />

career to create ligh<strong>the</strong>arted novelizations of<br />

popular films.<br />

( C) A publisher decides to add more diagrams to<br />

a statistics textbook in order to increase its<br />

readability.<br />

(D) A photographer accompanies each of his<br />

shots with a note describing <strong>the</strong> events in his<br />

life at <strong>the</strong> time it was taken.<br />

(E) A poem full of vivid imagery is used by an<br />

artist as <strong>the</strong> basis <strong>for</strong> a series of oil paintings.<br />

18. Lines 37-51 ("I trust . .. around him.") in Passage 1<br />

mainly serve to<br />

(A) offer a counterexample to <strong>the</strong> discussion up<br />

to that point<br />

(B) reestablish and elaborate upon an argument<br />

begun in <strong>the</strong> previous paragraph<br />

( C) introduce a complication <strong>the</strong> author had not<br />

previously considered<br />

(D) point out some particularly egregious examples<br />

of inadequate film adaptations<br />

(E) assert that books of average quality can be<br />

turned into movies, but great literature can<br />

never be<br />

19. The author of Passage 1 would probably<br />

characterize <strong>the</strong> "powerful messages" (lines 57-58)<br />

mentioned in Passage 2 as<br />

(A) potentially dangerous because <strong>the</strong>y have such<br />

an impact on so many people<br />

(B) less powerful than messages delivered<br />

through a medium with greater audience<br />

participation<br />

(C) less capable of delivering key ideas clearly<br />

than messages from o<strong>the</strong>r <strong>for</strong>ms of media<br />

(D) vastly superior to <strong>the</strong> quality of <strong>the</strong> messages<br />

delivered by a night of television viewing<br />

(E) more complex than literary messages because<br />

<strong>the</strong> visual and auditory senses are more<br />

engaged<br />

17. In line 36, <strong>the</strong> phrase "public's enjoyment" refers<br />

to occasions when<br />

(A) people are free to envision <strong>the</strong> author's words<br />

without <strong>the</strong> intrusion of outside influences<br />

(B) difficult literary works are brought to life so<br />

anyone can understand <strong>the</strong>m<br />

(C) viewers are able to relax with a classic film<br />

work in <strong>the</strong> privacy of <strong>the</strong>ir own homes<br />

(D) people read more because no o<strong>the</strong>r sources of<br />

entertainment are available<br />

(E) moviegoers actually prefer a film adaptation<br />

to <strong>the</strong> original book<br />

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