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Section 6<br />

Practice Test Nine<br />

Questions 23-24 are based on <strong>the</strong> following passage.<br />

Ralph Waldo Emerson's groundbreaking career<br />

was born as <strong>the</strong> young 19th-century writer and<br />

philosopher traveled down a misdirected career<br />

Line path to <strong>the</strong> ministry. Likely pressed by his fa<strong>the</strong>r,<br />

(5) a Boston church leader of some renown, Emerson<br />

enrolled in divinity school after he completed<br />

his undergraduate studies. It did not take long,<br />

however, <strong>for</strong> disillusionment to settle in. Emerson<br />

grew restless amidst what he perceived as <strong>the</strong><br />

(10) stiflingly rigid modes of thinking of his church,<br />

a mismatch that, in retrospect, is not difficult to<br />

imagine. Indeed, Emerson based his influential<br />

philosophy of Transcendentalism on extremely<br />

creative sources and concepts, far afield from <strong>the</strong><br />

(15) church tradition.<br />

24. The author's reference to "stiflingly rigid modes of<br />

thinking" (line 10) suggests that<br />

(A) Emerson found divinity school uninspiring<br />

(B) Emerson was known <strong>for</strong> being rebellious<br />

( C) Emerson chose <strong>the</strong> wrong divinity school<br />

(D) Emerson was unwilling to be <strong>for</strong>ced into<br />

his church's beliefs<br />

(E) divinity schools are notoriously strict<br />

23. The author uses <strong>the</strong> words "in retrospect" (line 11)<br />

to emphasize that Emerson<br />

(A) became known <strong>for</strong> innovative thought<br />

(B) came to be critical of all rigid modes of<br />

thought<br />

(C) was a particularly secular man<br />

(D) later renounced his fa<strong>the</strong>r's influence<br />

(E) regretted his enrollment in divinity school<br />

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