The Angel's Game

Over the course of the passage, the main focus shifts from a

• general discussion of the narrator’s love of reading to a portrayal of an influential incident.

• depiction of the narrator’s father to an examination of an author with whom the narrator becomes enchanted.

• symbolic representation of a skill the narrator possesses to an example of its application.

• tale about the hardships of the narrator’s childhood to an analysis of the effects of those hardships.

With which of the following statements about his father would the narrator most likely agree?

• He lacked affection for the narrator.

• He disliked any unnecessary use of money.

• He would not have approved of Sempere’s gift.

• He objected to the writings of Charles Dickens.

It can reasonably be inferred from the passage that the main reason that the narrator considers Great Expectations to be the best gift he ever received is because...

• reading the book convinced him that he wanted to be a writer.

• he’d only ever been given sweets and snacks as gifts in the past.

• the gift meant that Sempere held him in high regard.

• Sempere was a friend of the book’s author.

Which statement best characterizes the relationship between Sempere and Charles Dickens?

• Sempere models his own writing after Dickens’s style.

• Sempere is an avid admirer of Dickens’s work.

• Sempere feels a personal connection to details of Dickens’s biography.

• Sempere considers himself to be Dickens’s most appreciative reader.

How does the narrator describe himself as a child?

• precocious

• deferential

• avaricious

• pallid

The narrator implies that his father is ___.

• illiterate

• lax

• effeminate

• miserly

From the context, what did you conclude a "reale" was?

• a genre of novel

• a unit of currency

• an intuition

• a premonition

After the author sneaked his "new friend" past his father and into his house, he ___.

• read it nine times

• hid it under his mattress and waited for his father to fall asleep

• showed it to his little brother

• wrote "From a lifelong friend" on the inside cover