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6New York CCLSPractice

English Language Arts

Contents

Practice Test 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Practice Test 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Practice Test 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Answer Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

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review program for the Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts . This book has three practice tests . In each practice test, you will answer 53 ELA questions (44 multiple-choice, 7 short-response, and 2 extended-response) .

Your teacher will explain how you will do the practice tests and record your answers . Be sure to follow the directions for each practice test . As you complete the practice tests, read the passages and answer the questions carefully . Use the Answer Forms beginning on page 109 to record your answers to the multiple-choice questions . Remember to fill in the answer bubbles completely . If you change an answer, you must erase your first answer fully . You will write out your answers to the short- and extended-response questions in the book .

While you work on the practice tests, use the Testing Tips below . Read these helpful tips carefully . They can make you a better test taker .

Testing Tips for Answering Multiple-Choice Questions

• Read each question carefully before you try to answer it .

• Be sure you know what the question is asking you to do .

• Cross out any answer choices that are not reasonable . Then make your choice from the remaining choices .

• Read the question again . Check that your answer makes sense .

Passage Credits:

Nick D’Alto, “Heard It Through the Grapevine” adapted from Odyssey, September 2004 issue: Wired World . Copyright © 2004 by Carus Publishing Company, published by Cobblestone Publishing, 30 Grove Street, Suite C, Peterborough, NH 03458 . All rights reserved . Used by permission of the publisher .

Sylvia Kamerman, adapted excerpts from “Langston Hughes: Poet of the People” from The Big Book of Large-Cast Plays . Reprinted with permission of the publisher, PLAYS/Sterling Partners, Inc ., PO Box 600160, Newton, MA 02460 .

Ela Banerjee, “Embers of Moonlight” adapted from Weekly Reader, April/May 2007 . Copyight © 2007 by Weekly Reader Corporation . Reprinted with permission of Scholastic Inc .

Charles F . Baker, “Archimedes and the Siege of Syracuse” from Calliope, May/June 2008 issue: The World’s Firsts . Copyright © 2008 by Carus Publishing Company, published by Cobblestone Publishing, 30 Grove Street, Suite C, Peterborough, NH 03458 . All rights reserved . Used by permission of the publisher .

Gillian Bradshaw, adapted excerpt from The Sand Reckoner, Forge Books, 2000 .

Amy Leinbach Marquis, “A Mountain Calling” adapted from National Parks, fall 2007 . Copyright © 2007 by National Parks Magazine/NPCA . Reprinted with permission .

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Practice Test 1: Book 3

Read the passages. Then answer the questions that follow.

John White and Roanokeby Brendan Wolfe

1 John White was an artist by training. He traveled the world and painted what he saw. In 1585, with a group of English colonists, he sailed to Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina. There he composed watercolor paintings of the Native Americans the English encountered and the villages in which they lived. He visited the town of Dasemunkepeuc, and he became friends with Manteo, a Native American whose mother was chief on the island of Croatoan. Still, not all relations between the colonists and the Native Americans were friendly. Many of the natives worried that the English planned to steal their land, and a year after arriving, the colonists thought it wise to sail back to England.

2 They returned in 1587, this time led by White. The colony’s new governor was a brilliant painter but perhaps not a great leader. He argued with the ship’s pilot, who would only plant the English on Roanoke Island again. White had planned to settle their colony, called Virginia, farther to the north. Meanwhile, some Native Americans, especially those who lived in Dasemunkepeuc, were still angry about the colonists’ presence and threatened to do battle. Not all was lost, however. Manteo’s friendship was like an unbreakable knot. On August 13, White helped Manteo convert to the English religion and, for his “faithful service,” made him Lord of Roanoke. Then, five days later, White’s daughter, Eleanor, gave birth to a daughter. Virginia, as she was called, was the first English baby born in America.

3 A week later, White decided to leave. Someone needed to tell the colony’s sponsors in England where the colonists had settled. Someone needed to round up additional supplies. But when White asked for volunteers, no one said a word. Instead, he himself boarded the ship and sailed to England. Unfortunately, war with Spain prevented him from returning for three years. When he did land back on Roanoke, the island was empty. A fire that he thought might have been a signal had merely been a fire sparked by lightning. Letters carved into a tree suggested that the 117 men, women, and children he left behind had moved to Croatoan, perhaps to live with Manteo’s people. White guessed they were safe, but there also were signs that his enemies at Dasemunkepeuc had been there. Many of White’s paintings and maps, hidden in buried trunks, had been dug up and destroyed. As he boarded the boat again, John White gazed back at Roanoke. It was August 18, 1590—his granddaughter’s third birthday.

4 White assumed he would next sail to Croatoan, where he hoped to be reunited with his family and the other colonists. However, the ship’s captain refused. A storm had drowned some of his crew, and he wanted to leave these dangerously shallow waters as soon as possible. White argued, but in vain. They sailed away, never to return. Never found, the Lost Colonists of Roanoke became an American legend. And John White—a painter thrust into the uncomfortable role of leader—died alone three years later.

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John White’s Narrative of the 1590 Voyage to Virginia

“John White’s Narrative of the 1590 Voyage to Virginia” from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries, Volume 3 by Richard Hakluyt, published by E. P. Dutton & Company, 1907.

1 But before we could get to the place where our planters1 were left, it was so exceedingly dark that we overshot the place a quarter mile. There we spied toward the north end of the island the light of a great fire through the woods, to which we presently rowed. When we came right over against it, we let fall our grapnel2 near the shore, and sounded with a trumpet a call, and afterwards many familiar English tunes and songs, and called to them friendly, but we had no answer. We therefore landed at daybreak, and coming to the fire, we found the grass and sundry rotten trees burning about the place. From hence we went through the woods to that part of the island directly over against the town of Dasemunkepeuc, and from thence we returned by the water side, round about the north point of the island, until we came to the place where I left our colony in the year 1586.

2 In all this way we saw in the sand two or three Indian footprints trodden in that night. And as we entered up the sandy bank we came upon a tree, in the very brow thereof were curiously carved these fair Roman letters, “CRO.” We knew these letters to signify the place where I should find the planters seated, according to a secret token agreed upon between them and me at my last departure from them. If they moved, they should not fail to write or carve on the trees or posts of the doors the name of the place where they should be seated, because when I left they were prepared to remove from Roanoke fifty miles to the mainland. Therefore at my departure from them in Anno 1587 I willed them that if they should happen to be distressed in any of those places, that they should carve a cross over the letters or name, but we found no such sign of distress.

3 At our return from the creek, we[e] found five chests that had been carefully hidden by the planters, and then later dug up. Of the same chests, three were my own, and about the place many of my things spoiled and broken, and my books torn from the covers, the frames of some of my pictures and maps rotten and spoiled with rain, and my armor almost eaten through with rust. This could be no other but the deed of our enemies at Dasemunkepeuc, who had watched the departure of our men to Croatoan; and as soon as they were departed, dug up every place where they suspected anything to be buried. But although it much grieved me to see such spoil of my goods, yet on the other side I greatly joyed that I had safely found a certain token of their safe being at Croatoan, which is the place where Manteo was borne, and the Indians of the island our friends.


1 planters: those who settle a new colony2 grapnel: an anchor



50 Readthissentencefrom“JohnWhiteandRoanoke.”

Still,notallrelationsbetweenthecolonistsandtheNativeAmericanswerefriendly.

Howdoestheauthorsupportthisargument?Usetwodetailsfromthepassagetosupportyouranswer.

Writeyouranswerincompletesentences.

51 Frominformationin“JohnWhite’sNarrativeofthe1590VoyagetoVirginia,”whatdidWhitemost likelythinkthe“greatfire”was?Usetwodetailsfromthepassagetosupportyouranswer.




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53 “JohnWhiteandRoanoke”and“JohnWhite’sNarrativeofthe1590VoyagetoVirginia”bothtellthesamestory,butindifferentways.Howaretwopassagessimilaranddifferentintermsofhowtheauthorspresenttheirinterpretationofevents?

Inyourresponse,besureto:

•describehowthefirstauthorpresentstheevents•describehowthesecondauthorpresentstheevents•explainthesimilaritiesanddifferencesbetweenthewaytheauthorspresenttheevents•usedetailsfrombothpassagesinyourresponse




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Read the poem and the story. Then answer the questions that follow.

Talking in Their Sleep“Talking in Their Sleep” by Edith M. Thomas, from Nature Study Made Easy

by Edward Byrne Shallow, Winifred T. Cullen, published by Macmillan Company, 1909.

“You think I am dead,” The apple tree said, “Because I have never a leaf to show– Because I stoop, 5 And my branches droop, And the dull gray mosses over me grow! But I’m still alive in trunk and shoot; The buds of next May I fold away– 10 But I pity the withered grass at my root.”

“You think I am dead,” The quick grass said, “Because I have parted with stem and blade! But under the ground 15 I am safe and sound With the snow’s thick blanket over me laid. I’m all alive, and ready to shoot, Should the spring of the year Come dancing here– 20 But I pity the flower without branch or root.”

“You think I am dead,” A soft voice said, “Because not a branch or root I own. I never have died, 25 But close I hide In a plumy seed that the wind has sown. Patient I wait through the long winter hours; You will see me again– I shall laugh at you then, 30 Out of the eyes of a hundred flowers.”



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Embers of Moonlightby Ela Banerjee, Writing Weekly Reader

1 The moon was sitting on my roof.

2 Yet it wasn’t really that bizarre.1 After all, it was the last night of the month, the Night of Rebirth. The night when the sky trickled down and the plants shriveled and the tiny creatures of Wood shuddered with one last heartbeat. The night when all things east of The Mountains died, waiting for a new birth at dawn.

3 A few falling stars had landed earlier on the top of my rickety house, which nestled precariously2 on the highest, most eastern edge of The Mountains. They had only lasted for a handful of moments, giggling uncontrollably, and then crumbling in a sudden spark of gold.

4 But the moon had never landed upon my roof. I had sat there, high in The Mountains, on the border of a strange world, every month as long as I could remember. I would watch, mesmerized,3 as the place no one else ever entered began to rot away. I watched the animals retreat and the stars tumble down, but when the feeling of death became overwhelming, I slipped back into my bed, thinking of the world on the other side of The Mountains.

5 I had heard rumors of the moon herself landing, but they were mangled and debated. But here she sat with poignant4 patience, her ivory dress delicately rippling like shattered lake water over her willowy arms and legs, a collection of folded limbs that shone with a strange and pallid5 luminescence.6 Her hair glinted like polished glass as two perfect sapphire spheres studied my face.

6 An expectant silence tinged with the distant flickering of literally dying stars followed.

7 “So, what was it like in the sky?” I began awkwardly.

8 “Like how you feel up here.” Her voice was odd. Musical and elegant, yet strangely hoarse and low. “Like why you come up here each month.”

9 Not sure how to respond, I looked out over the jagged ledge of The Mountains and into the realm where the moon came from and I did not.

10 I watched as the world died with simultaneous7 regularity. The trees yawned with their branches and collapsed heavily to the ground. Their cracked leaves fluttered to the grass, which itself curled from bright green to aged brown before my eyes.

11 Flowers savored one last brilliant hue, and then turned to ashened dust, while rich patches of soil withered into cracked gray.

1 bizarre: strange, odd, out of the ordinary2 precariously: in an unsteady or uncertain way3 mesmerized: fascinated4 poignant: touching or moving, with a strong effect 5 pallid: pale, white6 luminescence: glow7 simultaneous: happening at the same time, all at once


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12 As the moon continued, I closed my eyes, her voice melting with the diminishing call of a nightingale. “I know you and your kin hide in these peaks. Yet you are the only one who ventures out to witness these nights. It is a strange thing how this world passes on each month, how each thing so carefully sculpted is suddenly destroyed. I know you wonder why it happens.

13 “I have died many times. I fall with the sky each month, with the stars and the clouds and the air. Is it an ending? Or is it a beginning?”

14 Something touched my arm, a surface as cold as bitter metal. My eyes snapped open to see the moon’s chalkwhite hand gently touching my own. I looked into her face and stifled a gasp. Her once-ivory skin was now crumpled in a bed of sagging wrinkles; her arm, I now noticed, was thin and interrupted by bruised veins. Yet her eyes were still pierced with sudden blue and now held my own.

15 “But there is no difference, is there? I see this night as you do. It is destruction; it is hope-a revision, a new view. But it continues, on and on. You see this, I know. This is why I have alighted on your roof, on The Mountains tonight. You always go back before the night is over-before it really ends. Now you will finally see.”

16 As she broke away from my arm, I suddenly realized that I was surrounded by a cloud of utter and endless darkness. All the stars had long since burnt out; all the creatures had been forgotten. The only light was the moon herself, her pale glow a single flicker in the dead night.

17 But she was dimming. . . . Slowly, she began to fade, her skin gaining transparency, her eyes only a twinkle of indigo. Soon, I could only see a shimmer of white.

18 I closed my eyes as the moon died, unwilling to watch her disappear.

19 After many moments, I dared to watch the world again. Blackness, lifeless and silent, enveloped me. No moon, no stars, no Wood.

20 I sighed, and was about to settle to the ground, when a glinting caught my eye. I looked down and saw a sprinkle of silvery, sparkling dust. I smiled.

21 That night, I closed my eyes to the embers of moonlight.

17 Readline7fromthepoem,“TalkinginTheirSleep.”

ButI’mstillaliveintrunkandshoot.

Whichmeaningoftheword“trunk”isintendedhere?

A largecontainerwithahingedlid

B longnose-likesnout

C baggagecompartmentofavehicle

D mainpartorstem



18 Whichlinesfromthepoem“TalkinginTheirSleep”explainwhyplantsmayseemtobedeadinthewinter?

A “BecauseIstoop/andmybranchesdroop...”

B “Butundertheground/Iamsafeandsound...

C “Shouldthespringoftheyear/Comedancinghere–”

D “PatientIwaitthroughthelongwinterhours...”

19 Whichoftheseisathemeofthepoem”TalkinginTheirSleep”?

A Innature,plantsgrowthroughouttheyear.

B Winterisatimeofrestratherthandeath.

C Peoplealwaysfailtounderstandnature.

D Livingthingsarenotaliveuntilspring.

20 Readlines29and30fromthepoem“TalkinginTheirSleep.”

Ishalllaughatyouthen, Outoftheeyesofahundredflowers.

Whydoesthepoetusethephrase“theeyesofahundredflowers”?

A Sheiscomparingthecenterofaflowertoaneye.

B Sheiscomparingbeautifulwomentoflowers.

C Sheiscomparingflowerstoapairofglasses.

D Sheiscomparingspringtimetoafieldofflowers.

21 Howdoestherepeatedline“YouthinkIamdead”helptodeveloptheideasofthepoem”TalkinginTheirSleep”?

A Itsuggeststhattheobserver’soriginalbeliefsaboutplantsmayactuallybetrue.

B Itshowsthattheplantsfeelhumansareresponsibleforthedeathofgreenthings.

C Itintroducessomethingthatmightbeassumedaboutplantsbutisthendisproved.

D Itgivesanexampleofsomethingplantsmightsaytothesnowsandiceofwinter.



26 Inparagraph20of“EmbersofMoonlight,”whatisthemost likely reasonthatthenarratorsmiles?

A Thenarratorispleasedthatsomepartofthemoonremains.

B Thenarratorisexcitedtodiscoverthevaluablesilverdust.

C Thenarratorishappythatthenighthasfinallyended.

D Thenarratorisgladthatthedarknesswillcontinueon.

27 Howdoesthemoonchangethroughout“EmbersofMoonlight”?

A Shechangesfrombrightcolorstodarkcolors.

B Shechangesfrombeautifullydressedtopoorlydressed.

C Shechangesfromhighintheskytolowinthesky.

D Shechangesfromyoungandbeautifultooldandweak.

28 Whichofthesedetailsfrom“EmbersofMoonlight”bestsupportsthecentralideathattheNightofRebirthisanecessarypartofacycle?

A Thenarratorwatchesfallingstarslandonherroofandcrumbleaway.

B Thenarratorhasheardrumorsthatthemoonsometimeslandstoo.

C Themoonslowlyfadesandthendissapearsintotheblacknessofnight.

D Themoonquestionswhetherherdeathisanendingorabeginning.


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29 Whichofthefollowingisthebestsummaryof“EmbersofMoonlight”?

A ThisisoneofthemostentertainingstoriesandtellsofastrangeworldwherealllivingthingsdieonceamonthontheNightofRebirth.Thestoryhasonlytwocharacters:anarratorandabeautifulghostlymoonwholandsonthenarrator’shome.Theauthorusesrichlycreativedescriptionsinthestory.

B Thestorycreatesauniquefantasyworldthatatfirstseemsdarkanddepressing.OntheNightofRebirthattheendofeachmonth,allcreatureslivingeastofTheMountainsdie,onlytoberebornatdawn.Sadlyforthenarrator,themoondiesbeforeherveryeyes,becomingonlyashimmerofwhite.

C OneachNightofRebirth,thenarratorwatchesaseverythingintheeasternlandsdiesbeforebeingreborn.Ononeofthesenights,themoonlandsonthenarrator’shouseandasksthenarratortofinallywatchtheendofthenight.Themoondiesinfrontofthenarratorbutleavesbehindembersinthedarkness.

D Onthelastnightofthemonth,thenarratorwatchesasplantsshrivel,creaturesdie,andthemoonandstarsfallfromthesky.Themoonlandsonthenarrator’shouseonenightandexplainsthatthenightcanbeviewedasanendingorabeginning.Thenarratoristoofrightenedbythedarkness,though.

30 Whichstatementbestcompareshow“TalkinginTheirSleep”and“EmbersofMoonlight”approachtheideaofrebirth?

A Thepoemfocusesmainlyonthecontinuationoflife,whilethestoryfocusesonthedeaththatoccursbeforerebirth.

B Thepoemfocusesondarknessandtheideathatdeathcannotbeavoided,whilethestoryfocusesonlifeandnewbeginnings.

C Thepoemsuggeststhatalllifemusteventuallycometoanend,whilethestorysuggeststhatlifeisanever-endingcycle.

D Thepoemsuggeststhatlifeisapatternthatrepeatsoverandoveragain,whilethestorysuggeststhatlifeanddeathareunexpected.

31 Howaretheflowerin“TalkinginTheirSleep”andthemoonin“EmbersofMoonlight”alike?

A Theybothfeelbitteraboutdying,andtheyareangrythatnaturehastakenlifefromthembeforetheywereready.

B Theybothappeartohavedied,buttheyhaveleftbehindapieceofthemselvestocontinuethecycleoflife.

C Theybothfeelsadabouthowtheirbeautyfades,buttheytakecomfortinknowingthattheybroughtjoytoothers.

D Theybothhaveexperienceddeathmanytimes,andeachpeacefullyacceptsdeathasanecessaryfinalendingtolife.



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Read the passages. Then answer the questions that follow.

A Mountain Callingby Amy Leinbach Marquis, National Parks

1 John Muir never liked the word “hike.” Even in the 19th century, American society’s connection to nature had grown increasingly shallow, people’s time outdoors rigid and hasty. Muir, on the other hand, preferred to saunter. “Sauntering meant taking your time, valuing what you see,” says Tad Shay, lead interpretive ranger at John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez, California. “It meant stopping to enjoy the view of a lake, not running past it.”

2 Born in 1838 in the seaside town of Dunbar, Scotland, Muir began his love affair with nature at a young age. . . .

3 In 1849, Muir’s father sacrificed the family’s wealth in Dunbar for a harsh farming life in America, claiming an 80-acre plot of land in central Wisconsin. It was in this pastoral wilderness—its open skies, frozen meadows, and thousands of migrating birds—that Muir found his own religion. . . .

4 Muir was nearly 30 the first time he ventured into California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. He was overwhelmed by the landscape, scrambling down steep cliff faces to get a closer look at the waterfalls, whooping and howling at the vistas, jumping tirelessly from flower to flower. “We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us,” he wrote.

5 Muir quickly found work as a sheepherder to keep this precious place near. Guiding his flock through the foothills and into higher elevations, he began his lifelong courtship with the Sierra Nevada. He spent much of his thirties alone in the mountains, carrying a tattered blue journal that he filled with sketches, scientific observations, and soulful writing.

6 Although he preferred living on society’s fringe, he also longed for human companionship. Muir began publishing his writing in 19th-century travel publications that East Coast tourists read on trains bound for the West. Soon, famous scientists and writers joined him in the Sierra Nevada. Ralph Waldo Emerson affected Muir deeply. So did President Teddy Roosevelt, whom Muir invited on a camping trip in the sequoia forest with one stipulation: No politics allowed. Roosevelt went on to establish Yosemite as a national park. . .

7 “We like to say that Muir got the ball rolling for the National Park System,” Shay says. Four more significant designations would follow, thanks to Muir’s influence: Grand Canyon, Mount Rainier, Petrified Forest, and Sequoia. America would come to know Muir as “The Father of Our National Parks.”

8 In his 76 years, Muir published more than 300 articles and 12 books. He moved a president to create the U.S. Forest Service and co-founded the Sierra Club, which helped establish several new national parks years after his death, and now boasts 1.3 million members.

9 It’s quite a legacy for a man who was so adamant1 about taking his time.

10 “Our lives are so rapid these days,” Shay says. “Perhaps the best way to honor Muir is simply to slow down and appreciate nature for its beauty.”

1 adamant: firmly fixed




Albert Palmer was a companion of John Muir on several memorable “saunterings” through the Sierras. His memoir is a treasure of the early conservation movement in America.

from The Mountain Trail and Its MessageExcerpts from The Mountain Trail and Its Message by Albert W. Palmer,

published by The Pilgrim Press, 1911.

1 There is a fourth lesson of the trail. It is one which John Muir taught me [during an early Sierra Club outing].

2 There are always some people in the mountains who are known as “hikers.” They rush over the trail at high speed and take great delight in being the first to reach camp and in covering the greatest number of miles in the least possible time. [They] measure the trail in terms of speed and distance.

3 One day as I was resting in the shade Mr. Muir overtook me on the trail and began to chat in that friendly way in which he delights to talk with everyone he meets. I said to him: “Mr. Muir, someone told me you did not approve of the word ‘hike.’ Is that so?” His blue eyes flashed, and with his Scotch accent he replied: “I don’t like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains—not hike!

4 “Do you know the origin of that word ‘saunter?’ It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, “A la sainte terre,’ ‘To the Holy Land.’ And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.”

5 John Muir lived up to his doctrine. He was usually the last man to reach camp. He never hurried. He stopped to get acquainted with individual trees along the way. He would hail people passing by and make them get down on hands and knees if necessary to see the beauty of some little bed of almost microscopic flowers. Usually he appeared at camp with some new flowers in his hat and a little piece of fir bough in his buttonhole.

6 Now, whether the derivation1 of saunter Muir gave me is scientific or fanciful, is there not in it another parable? There are people who “hike” through life. They measure life in terms of money and amusement; they rush along the trail of life feverishly seeking to make a dollar or gratify an appetite. How much better to “saunter” along this trail of life, to measure it in terms of beauty and love and friendship! How much finer to take time to know and understand the men and women along the way, to stop a while and let the beauty of the sunset possess the soul, to listen to what the trees are saying and the songs of the birds, and to gather the fragrant little flowers that bloom all along the trail of life for those who have eyes to see!

7 You can’t do these things if you rush through life in a big red automobile at high speed; you can’t know these things if you “hike” along the trail in a speed competition. These are the peculiar rewards of the man who has learned the secret of the saunterer!

1 derivation: origin


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17 Howdoestheauthorof“AMountainCalling”introducetheideaof“sauntering”tothereader?

A bygivingthedictionarydefinition

B byquotinganationalparkranger

C byrelatingittoMuir’schildhood

D byshowingapartofMuir’sjournal

18 Whichdetailfrom“AMountainCalling”showsthatTeddyRooseveltwasgreatlyinfluencedbyhiscampingtripwithJohnMuir?

A “Nopoliticsallowed.”

B “SodidPresidentTeddyRoosevelt,whomMuirinvitedonacampingtrip...”

C “RooseveltwentontoestablishYosemiteasanationalpark....”

D “AmericawouldcometoknowMuiras“‘TheFatherofOurNationalParks.’”

19 Whichdetailfrom“AMountainCalling”seemstogoagainsttheclaimthatMuirpreferredtosaunter?

A “‘Saunteringmeanttakingyourtime,valuingwhatyousee,’saysTadShay....”

B “Hewas...scramblingdownsteepclifffacestogetacloserlookatthewaterfalls,whoopingandhowlingatthevistas,jumpingtirelesslyfromflowertoflower.”

C “Hespentmuchofhisthirtiesaloneinthemountains,carryingatatteredbluejournal...“

D “HemovedapresidenttocreatetheU.S.ForestServiceandco-foundedtheSierraClub,whichhelpedestablishseveralnewnationalparksyearsafterhisdeath....”

20 Withwhichoftheseideasistheauthorof“AMountainCalling”most likelytoagree?

A PrivatenatureparksshouldbeturnedovertotheU.S.ForestryService.

B Rushingtoseeasmuchofanaturalparkaspossibleissometimesnecessary.

C Americafinallyhasenoughnationalparkstosatisfyeveryone’sneeds.

D EveryAmericanshouldtrytovisitanationalparkatleastonceinhisorherlife.



21 Whichdetailfrom“AMountainCalling”provesthatJohnMuirplayedanimportantroleinprotectingAmerica’swilderness?

A Muir’sfamilygaveupwealthtomovefromScotlandtoruralWisconsin.

B Muirenjoyedspendinglotsoftimeoutdoorsinthemountains.

C Muirwrotetravelpublications,andthesewerereadbytouriststravelingwest.

D MuirhelpedstarttheSierraClub,whichhelpedestablishednationalparks.

22 Whichideashouldbeleftoutofasummaryof“AMountainCalling”?

A MuirisclearlythegreatestdefenderofthegreatoutdoorsinAmericanhistory.

B MuirwantedotherstoappreciatethebeautyoftheAmericanwilderness.

C MuirtraveledwithfamouspeoplelikeRalphWaldoEmersonandPresidentRoosevelt.

D MuirinfluencedthecreationoftheNationalParksSystemandU.S.ForestService.

23 HowdoestheauthorofThe Mountain Trail and Its MessageintroduceJohnMuirtoreaders?

A bydescribingwhatMuirlookedandsoundedlike

B byquotingfromMuir’sjournal

C byretellingaconversationhehadwithMuir

D bygivingashortbiographyofMuir

24 Inparagraph5ofThe Mountain Trail and Its Message,whatdoestheword“hail”relateto?

A athreat

B agreeting

C astorm

D asuggestion



29 WhichoftheseactivitiesistheauthorofThe Mountain Trail and Its Messagemost likelytoenjoy?

A goingforadrivethroughthecountry

B joggingbrisklyalongaforestpath

C competinginalong-distancemarathon

D canoeingslowlyalongastream

30 WhichsentencefromThe Mountain Trail and Its Message best supportstheideain“AMountainCalling”thatMuir“longedforhumancompanionship”?

A “[Hikers]rushoverthetrailathighspeedandtakegreatdelightinbeingthefirsttoreachcampandincoveringthegreatestnumberofmilesintheleastpossibletime.”

B “OnedayasIwasrestingintheshadeMr.Muirovertookmeonthetrailandbegantochatinthatfriendlywayinwhichhedelightstotalkwitheveryonehemeets.”

C “Thereisafourthlessonofthetrail.ItisonewhichJohnMuirtaughtme[duringanearlySierraClubouting].”

D “Howmuchbetterto‘saunter’alongthistrailoflife,tomeasureitintermsofbeautyandloveandfriendship!”

31 Whichideafrom“AMountainCalling”hasthemostsupportinThe Mountain Trail and Its Message?

A “Bornin1838intheseasidetownofDunbar,Scotland,Muirbeganhisloveaffairwithnatureatayoungage....”

B “Muirquicklyfoundworkasasheepherdertokeepthispreciousplacenear.”

C “...’PerhapsthebestwaytohonorMuirissimplytoslowdownandappreciatenatureforitsbeauty.’“

D “‘Fourmoresignificantdesignationswouldfollow,thankstoMuir’sinfluence....”


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