Practice EOC Part 1

Part A Which sentence best states a central idea from passage 1?

• The isolated location of the house makes Jane uneasy

• As Jane walks through the house, she finds her feelings affected by its different features.

• While observing Mrs. Fairfax, Jane learns how difficult and tiring maintaining a large house can be.

• Jane’s interaction with the housekeeper makes Jane disappointed with her new position as governess.

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Part B: Select the sentence that best supports the correct answer to Part A.

• “My heart really warmed to the worthy lady as I heard her talk; and I drew my chair a little nearer to her, and expressed my sincere wish that she might find my company as agreeable as she anticipated.” (paragraph 1)

• “I thanked her for her considerate choice, and as I really felt fatigued with my long journey, expressed my readiness to retire.” (paragraph 3)

• “First she went to see if the hall-door was fastened; having taken the key from the lock, she led the way upstairs.” (paragraph 3)

• “A very chill and vault-like air pervaded the stairs and gallery, suggesting cheerless ideas of space and solitude; and I was glad, when finally ushered into my chamber, to find it of small dimensions, and furnished in ordinary, modern style.” (paragraph 3)

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Part A: How does Poe mainly develop suspense in paragraph 7?

• by contrasting the narrator’s familiarity with the setting with his feeling that something is wrong

• by presenting a flashback showing the narrator’s memories of the house in the past

• by contrasting the strange objects in the house with the narrator’s more comfortable home

• by establishing the narrator’s increasing conflict with the family doctor

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Part B: Select the sentence or phrase that best supports the correct answer to Part A.

• “A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages in my progress to the studio of his master.”

• “. . . the carvings of the ceilings, the sombre tapestries of the walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode . . .”

• “. . . while I hesitated not to acknowledge how familiar was all this—I still wondered to find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirring up.”

• “. . . wore a mingled expression of low cunning and perplexity.”

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Which statement about passage 2 best describes how the author’s choice of structure affects the meaning of the story?

• By adopting a slow pace with only a few events, the author emphasizes the remoteness of the setting.

• By focusing on the actions of the inhabitants of the house, the author establishes the relationship between characters.

• By having the narrator describe the house as he moves through it, the author establishes the bleak nature of the house.

• By contrasting what the narrator sees inside the house with what he sees outside the house, the author reveals aspects of the narrator’s character.

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Which sentence best states the central idea of passage 2?

• The narrator’s visit to his old friend brings back melancholy memories of their shared past.

• The gloom of the House of Usher creates feelings of dismay in the narrator.

• The atmosphere of the House of Usher is very different from the narrator’s memories of it in the past.

• The people the narrator encounters make the narrator worry about his friend.

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Reread paragraph 6.

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. . . .

What does oppressively mean as it is used in paragraph 6?

• cruelly

• barely

• depressingly

• alarmingly

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Reread this quote from paragraph 4.

When Mrs. Fairfax had bidden me a kind good-night, and I had fastened my door, gazed leisurely round, and in some measure effaced the eerie impression made by that wide hall, that dark and spacious staircase, and that long, cold gallery, by the livelier aspect of my little room, I remembered that, after a day of bodily fatigue and mental anxiety, I was now at last in safe haven.

Part A: What does livelier mean in paragraph 4?

• more crowded

• more active

• more cheerful

• more spacious

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Part B: How does the word livelier develop the author’s ideas?

• It suggests that the narrator is eager for the company of other people.

• It suggests that the narrator has an energetic personality despite her seemingly calm behavior.

• It suggests that the narrator has been given a room that is surprisingly luxurious and grand.

• It suggests that the narrator is relieved to find that her room is not as gloomy as the rest of the house.

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Which theme do both passages have in common?

• Setting can have a strong influence on a person’s mood.

• Being a guest is made easier by a hospitable welcome.

• People are often nervous when encountering new situations.

• Hope can be revived after a period of despair.

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