– ACT READING TEST PRACTICE – 67. The word exhausted, as it is used in line 23, most nearly means: a. impotent. b. stocked. c. spent. d. tired. 68. According to the passage, Sylvia waited for Lola instead of going out and leaving her a note because: f. Sylvia could not afford the rent on her own. g. Sylvia thought it would rain. h. she knows Lola will not be a suitable roommate. j. she thought it would be rude. 69. What can be inferred about Sylvia’s dominant emotion in paragraph 3? a. timidity b. curiosity c. irritation d. sadness 70 | ------------------------------ ACT READING TEST PRACTICE --------------------------------------- 67. The word exhausted as it is used in line 23 most nearly means a. impotent. b. stocked. c. spent. d. tired. 68. According to the passage Sylvia waited for Lola instead of going out and leaving her a note because f. Sylvia could not afford the rent on her own. g. Sylvia thought it would rain. h. she knows Lola will not be a suitable roommate. j. she thought it would be rude. 69. What can be inferred about Sylvia s dominant emotion in paragraph 3 a. timidity b. curiosity c. irritation d. sadness 70. The statement that the air is oppressively still in line 17 reflects the viewpoint of f. the author. g. Lola. h. Sylvia. j. the reader. HUMANITIES This passage is taken from the personal memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant 1885-86. 1 The Cause of the Great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that A state half slave and half free cannot exist. All must become slave or all free or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time but since the war is over 5 reviewing the whole question I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true. Slavery was an institution that required unusual guarantees for its security wherever it existed and in a country like ours where the larger portion of it was free territory inhabited by an intelligent and well-to-do population the people would naturally have but little sympathy with demands upon them for its protection. Hence the people of the South were dependent upon keep- 10 ing control of the general government to secure the perpetuation of their favorite restitution. They were enabled to maintain this control long after the States where slavery existed had ceased to have the controlling power through the assistance they received from odd men here and there throughout the
