ACT English Finding My Family Tree

As a boy, I was fortunate to have a close family, all

living in the same town. I saw my grandparents often, and they’d tell me story after story of a past world and of the people who dwelled in it.

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• who, dwelled, in it

• who dwelled, in it

• who, dwelled in it

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In one summer night I strolled through a thicket with my

grandfather, picking up leaves and sticks along the way.

Sometimes I knew from which tree they had fallen, but my grandpa happily gave me hints for most of them.

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• On one summer night

• One summer night,

• In one summer night,

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QUESTION: The writer is considering revising the preceding sentence

by deleting the phrase “but my grandpa happily

gave me hints for most of them” (placing a period after

the word fallen). If the writer did this, the paragraph

would primarily lose:

In one summer night I strolled through a thicket with my

grandfather, picking up leaves and sticks along the way.

Sometimes I knew from which tree they had fallen, but my grandpa happily gave me hints for most of them.

• information comparing the narrator’s knowledge of

  the woods with that of his grandfather.

• details describing the grandfather’s lifelong experience

  with wooded lands.

• details describing how the narrator and his grandfather

  passed the time on their walks in the woods.

• details revealing the narrator’s fondness of his

  grandfather through sharing his knowledge of trees.

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My grandfather’s immediate family came from Quebec;

his distant relatives hailed from France. He always wanted to take me to his hometown near Montreal, but we hadn’t yet had the opportunity.

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• his relatives hailing from distant France

• hailing more distant relatives from France

• his relatives hailed from France distantly

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QUESTION: Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?

He always wanted to take me to his hometown near

Montreal, but we hadn’t yet had the opportunity.

• by

• outside

• about

• close to

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The woods in French Canada, he said, were hearty and old, all of, the trees were the regrowth from widespread logging over a century ago.

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• old; all of

• old all of

• old; all, of

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QUESTION: Given that all of the choices are true, which one would most effectively lead the reader from the first sentence of this paragraph to the description that follows in the next two sentences?

When we came in from our walk, Grandpa would

take out one of his dusty shoeboxes from the cellar and sit down next to me. It amazes me how I’ve never seen the same shoebox emerge twice from the attic; his family

records are astounding. In the dusty box were old sepia photographs of family members going about their daily business. My great-grandmother was pictured having kneaded dough in the kitchen.

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• Maple syrup aside, there are lots of things I like

  about my family, and my grandpa continued to

  astound me with his tales.

• Grandpa usually has a good story to tell on our

  walks.

• No one else in my family has as much passion for

  long walks as does my grandpa.

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QUESTION: Given that all of the choices are true, which one provides information most relevant to the main focus of this paragraph?

When we came in from our walk, Grandpa would

take out one of his dusty shoeboxes from the cellar and sit down next to me. It amazes me how I’ve never seen the same shoebox emerge twice from the attic; his family

records are astounding. In the dusty box were old sepia photographs of family members going about their daily business.

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• in suits and dresses.

• enjoying a picnic in the country.

• with stark expressions that spoke of the toil of farm

  life generations ago.

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My great-grandmother was pictured having kneaded

dough in the kitchen.

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• kneads

• kneading

• was kneading

These edges were splitting on a photograph of boys

skating on a pond, hockey sticks raised in celebration of a

goal.

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• My edges

• The edges

• Those edges

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