Act Prep

It can reasonably be inferred from the passage that the narrator thinks air travel is:

• The most enjoyable way to travel

• an ordinary part of the world

• more uncomfortable than convenient

• somewhat unnatural in in what it makes possible

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The following three pragraphs (lines 1-23) establish all of the following about the narrator EXCEPT that he is?

• onboard an airplane

• traveling east

• departing from Denver

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The point of view from which the passage is told is best described as that of

• a young adult returning from spring break

• an adult relating his reactions to visting his hometown

• a young adult who has just woke from a coma.

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

According to the narrator, which of the following things is relatively new to his parents' house

• trinkets on the wall

• the fridge

• his father's brown Lexus

• the bird feeders

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The passages contains recurring references to all of the following EXCEPT:

• diffcult sleeping

• birds

• grids of lights

• dancing

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The narrator indicates that the most upsetting habits of his parents is

• buying new cars

• how and where they sleep

• what they watch on tv

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

According to the passages the coma victim has a sense of time as a relative phenomenon because

• ten years had gone by

• he was a physicist

• it was a side effect of his medicine

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Based on the narrators account all of the following are part of the present, rather than the past, in his hometown EXCEPT:

• THE CLOSED STUDIO

• THE UPCOMING SHOW

• THE BURNT REMAINS OF A SHOPPING CENTER

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

Details in the passage most strongly suggest that one charactertic of the narrator hometown is

• flat stretches

• palm trees

• oak trees

• long streets

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5