–38 REFER TO THE FOLLOWING,WHICH WAS WRITTEN INVICTORIAN E...

Questions 31–38 refer to the following,which was written inVictorian England. Read the passage carefully and then choose thebest answer for each question.

From Great Expectations

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“Hold your noise!” cried a terrible voice, as a man started up fromamong the graves at the side of the church porch. “Keep still, youlittle devil, or I’ll cut your throat!”A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A

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man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tiedround his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smoth-ered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung bynettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared andgrowled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by

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the chin.“Oh! Don’t cut my throat, sir,” I pleaded in terror. “Pray don’tdo it, sir.”“Tell us your name!” said the man. “Quick!”“Pip, sir.”

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“Once more,” said the man, staring at me. “Give it mouth!”“Pip. Pip, Sir.”“Show us where you live,” said the man. “Pint out the place!”I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among thealder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church.

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The man, after looking at me for a moment, turned me upsidedown, and emptied my pockets. There was nothing in them but apiece of bread. When the church came to itself—for he was sosudden and strong that he made it go head over heels before me, andI saw the steeple under my feet—when the church came to itself, I

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say, I was seated on a high tombstone, trembling, while he ate thebread ravenously.“You young dog,” said the man, licking his lips, “what fat cheeksyou ha’got.”I believe they were fat, though I was at that time undersized, for

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my years, and not strong.“Darn me if I couldn’t eat ’em,” said the man, with a threateningshake of his head, “and if I han’t half a mind to’t!”I earnestly expressed my hope that he wouldn’t, and held tighter

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PRACTICE TEST 1— Continued

He started, made a short run, and stopped and looked over hisshoulder.

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“There, sir!” I timidly explained. “Also Georgiana. That’s mymother.”“Oh!” said he, coming back. “And is that your father alongeryour mother?”“Yes, sir,” said I; “him too; late of this parish.”

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“Ha!” he muttered then, considering.“Who d’ye live with—supposin’ you’re kindly let to live, which Ihan’t made up mind about?”“My sister, sir—Mrs. Joe Gargery—wife of Joe Gargery, theblacksmith, sir.”“Blacksmith, eh?” said he, and looked down at his leg.

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After darkly looking at his leg and at me several times, he camecloser to my tombstone, took me by both arms, and tilted me back asfar as he could hold me; so that his eyes looked most powerfullydown into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into his.

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“Now lookee here,” he said, “the question being whether you’reto be let to live. You know what a file is?”“Yes, sir.”“And you know what wittles is?”

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After each question he tilted me over a little more, so as to giveme a greater sense of helplessness and danger.“You get me a file.” He tilted me again. “And you get mewittles.” He tilted me again. “You bring ’em both to me.” He tiltedme again. “Or I’ll have your heart and liver out.” He tilted me again.

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I was dreadfully frightened, and so giddy that I clung to himwith both hands, and said, “If you would kindly please to let me keepupright, sir, perhaps I shouldn’t be sick, and perhaps I could attendmore.”He gave me a most tremendous dip and toll, so that the church

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jumped over its own weather-cock. Then, he held me by the arms inan upright position on the top of the stone, and went on in thesefearful terms:“You bring me, tomorrow morning early, that file and themwittles. You bring the lot to me, at that old Battery over yonder. You

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do it, and you never dare to make a sign concerning your having seensuch a person as me or any person sumever, and you shall be let tolive . . .”—Charles Dickens

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SAT II SUCCESS: LITERATURE

35. The dialogue establishes31. This selection from the beginning of thebook demonstrates that the story will be(A) the character of the two protagonists.presented as(B) the social class of the characters.(A) a journal or diary.(C) the physical appearance of thecharacters.(B) a historical novel.(C) a fantasy.(D) the identity of the man.(D) a memoir or remembrance.(E) the setting of the novel.(E) a romance.36. What is the meaning of the word “wittles”32. The tone of the excerpt isin this selection?(A) desolate and frightening.(A) Cleverness, wiliness(B) A blacksmith’s tool(B) dark but frivolous.(C) superficial and supercilious.(C) A type of ale or beer(D) A weapon(D) fantastical and lacking in reality.(E) disturbing yet cheerful.(E) Food37. How is this selection developed?33. From evidence in the selection, you canassume that the “fearful man” (line 4) is(A) Spatial order(A) a highwayman.(B) Developmental order(C) Chronological order(B) insane.(D) Order of importance(C) an escaped convict.(D) the vicar of the church.(E) Narrative order(E) a relative of Pip.38. What type of language best describes the34. What is the effect of the point of view ofdialogue?the selection?(A) Figurative(B) VernacularI. The point of view creates immediacy.(C) AlliterativeII. It contributes to a sense of reality.(D) MetaphoricalIII. It helps the audience experiencePip’s fear.(E) Elizabethan English(A) I only(B) II only(C) III only(D) II and III(E) I, II, and III