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Answers and Complete Explanations for Practice Test 3
22. C. According to the chart, the sale price of both the Regal, King, and the Royal Satin,
Queen, is $699.00.
23. B. “On this 150th anniversary of his birth, Twain . . .”
24. C. “We have ground the manhood out of them and the shame is ours, not theirs; and we
should pay for it.”
25. A. The irony and vernacular in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may have confused
some readers and led to a misunderstanding of Twain’s feelings about slavery and issues
of race.
26. E. Choice C is incorrect because this is the 150th anniversary of his birth according to the
passage.
27. E. According to the passage, Pudd’nhead Wilson was “eccentric but clever.”
28. D. “There is life, not death . . . love, not bitterness in the paintings.”
29. A. The next-to-last paragraph states all of the choices except A.
30. C “Enduring themes” in his paintings and “through Chagall’s paintings . . . dreams survive”
indicate choice C.
31. D. The Eiffel tower in the painting indicates that the artist once lived in Paris.
32. C. “Don’t hang crepe, but strew flowers” means don’t mourn, but celebrate his life.
33. E. According to the graph, Boston had almost all night-game attendance (about 90%)
compared with very small day-game attendance (about 10%).
34. D. The brief passage introduces the possibility that life may have begun in clay instead of
in water as scientists have believed. Choices B, C, and E are much too strong to be supported
by the passage, and choice A refers to the earth instead of to life.
35. C. According to the passage, the auroras occur because of solar wind pushing against the
Earth’s magnetic field, causing an electric power supply. In choice B, the phrase caused by
makes the choice incorrect.
36. E. The auroras occur during these months; Earth’s tail is always present.
37. D. Since Earth’s tail is “similar to those of comets,” they are probably also composed of
electrically charged particles.
38. A. Beatty argues that cutting even six minutes from his film destroys its artistic integrity.
A similar and supporting line of argument would say that deleting parts of Beethoven’s
music or Shakespeare’s plays would do the same.
39. A. The final sentence of the passage indicates that the author supports Beatty’s demands.
Only choice A reflects this point of view.
40. B. The thrust of the passage is the battle between Beatty and ABC for the final cut of the
film Reds.
41. A. Choice A best summarizes the passage, citing two support points for the main idea —
that California’s roads have deteriorated. Choice E is incomplete and the “over threequarters”
is correct only in reference to the state’s country roads.
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