ACT Reading Passage 1-Offical ACT Prep Guide 2019-2020

1. 1.

• A.

• B.

• C.

• D.

Answer explanation

B. the story is narrated by Nidali, who is telling the story of how she came to get her name, offers insights into her parents' thoughts and action from a time she was too young to remember. First person use of I is used throughout the passage

2. 2.

• F.

• G.

• H.

• J.

Answer explanation

J. Nidali describes how easily her father ignored the tradition of naming a child after the grandfather (lines 19-20) Baba made this decision nonchalantly and without giving it much thought brushing it off like lint or dandruff

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

3. 3.

• A.

• B.

• C.

• D.

Answer explanation

A. when mama found out about the baby's name she immediately got out of bed and walked toward the elevator(lines 49-50) Baba was yelling at mom encouraging her not to be rash stressing that Nidali was a beautiful name. The narrator kept the name Nidali which means Mama eventually accepted the name.

4. 4.

• F.

• G.

• H.

• J.

Answer explanation

G. because the scene in the seventh paragraph(lines 54-68) did not really occur: it is a fictitious scene the narrator imagines could have happened had Mama pursued her quest to change the name. The narrator sets up the imagined scene by using "who knows" and use of "maybe"

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

5. 5.

• A.

• B.

• C.

• D.

Answer explanation

D. although lines 48-53 reveal that Mama is unhappy with the baby's new name, the next paragraph states that "mama must not have fought long". The paragraph imagines when Mama might have done if she had fought the name...

6. 6.

• F.

• G.

• H.

• J.

Answer explanation

H. because there is an earlier reference to "these stories" where Nidali says of her father, "I knew he must have embellished. Baba liked to do that: tell stories that were impossible but true all at once..."(lines 71-74)

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

7. 7.

• A.

• B.

• C.

• D.

Answer explanation

C. because the narrator says the fact that her father was an architect instead of a writer was a "reality that filled him with great sadness" (lines 77-78) In addition the narrator notes the house was filled with toys and dirty socks instead of a piano was something that caused her mother, a musician, "great sadness"(line 86)

8.

• F.

• G.

• H.

• J.

Answer explanation

F. because the narrator states that Mama is "the most superstitious of all humans(even more that Baba, and to that she'll attest)" (lines60-62)

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

9. 9.

• A.

• B.

• C.

• D.

Answer explanation

D. because the narrator states that "Mama liked to expose him when he told such stories: she was his paparazzo, his story-cop"(lines 79-80) As a story-cop Mama would be paying attention to the accuracy of details and correcting Baba

10.

• F.

• G.

• H.

• J.

Answer explanation

F. in the last paragraph we see a contrast between home and school: "I knew from the beginning that home meant embellishing and that's why I loved school. Teachers were there: they taught us facts based on reality" (lines 87-89)