WorksheetsACT Reading Practice Test
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What changes in the stranger’s message between when he speaks to the boy and when he speaks to Tetsuya himself?
To the boy, he claims he wants to challenge Tetsuya, but to Tetsuya, he insists he only wants to demonstrate his own mastery.
To the boy, he ridicules Tetsuya’s skill, but to Tetsuya, he expresses his awe of it.
To the boy, he says Tetsuya is considered the best archer in the country, but to Tetsuya, he claims Tetsuya is no longer a legend.
To the boy, he says that Tetsuya has abandoned his art, but to Tetsuya, he reveals he knows Tetsuya is still practicing.
The passage implies that the boy mainly views the stranger’s demonstration of his archery skills as:
a humiliating insult to Tetsuya.
an inconvenience to the day’s carpentry work.
a startling and confusing display.
a fun and exciting game.
It can reasonably be inferred that Tetsuya has no arrows, because:
he hasn’t used his bow in a long time.
he used them all up in recent practice.
he has had no time to make them in his carpentry shop.
he is too poor to afford them.
The repeated descriptions of the rituals of shooting the bow (bowing to the other archer, bowing toward the target) are most likely intended to emphasize:
the boy’s exasperation with the repetitiveness of the archery competition.
Tetsuya’s and the stranger’s connection with their heritage.
the sacredness of the ritual and the respect with which the archers treat the art.
. the irony of Tetsuya’s and the stranger’s feigned respect in the heat of competition.
It can be assumed that Tetsuya takes the stranger to bridge for his archery demonstration because:
it is Tetsuya’s favorite archery spot.
it is a place where Tetsuya is assured to win the competition.
it is far enough away to exhaust the stranger before he has a chance to shoot again
it is an ideal place to demonstrate the importance of learning to shoot in unfavorable circumstances.
It can reasonably be inferred that the stranger is “deathly pale” when he returns to the bank:
because he was terrified by the fraying bridge and the long drop below.
because he failed to hit a target he has always made in the past.
because he is fearful of Tetsuya’s punishment
because of the cold and dampness near the mountain river.
According to the passage, Tetsuya and the stranger are similar to each other in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
they are both skilled archers
they both have a respect for the bow
they both have an understanding of the connection between archery and the mind
they complete similar rituals before shooting their arrows.
As it is used in line 76, the word loaded most nearly means:
weighed down
armed
supplied abundantly
took on
Tetsuya’s comments to the stranger in lines 91 - 99 are most intended to demonstrate:
Tetsuya’s wisdom in understanding that the way of the bow is a lifelong process.
Tetsuya’s arrogance in assuming that he knows more about archery than the stranger.
Tetsuya’s desire to return to archery.
Tetsuya’s reasoning for why he gave up archery.
It can reasonably be concluded that the stranger, upon leaving, reacts to Tetsuya's lesson with:
anger
guilt
humility
triumph
The author's attitude toward Edmund Burke in Passage A can best be described as:
interest and wariness
skepticism and apprehension
amusement and sentimentality
reverence and fascination.
Lines 1 - 14 make it clear that Edmund Burke believed that early Greek democracies, Byzantine emperors, and the Magna Carta were:
the result of Enlightenment philosophy
influential in the formation of the British Parliamentary system.
founded on outdated political science
the fulfillment of all preceding governmental models.
In lines 36 - 49, the author quotes Burke's speech to Parliament primarily to emphasize the fact that:
Burke still believed Parliament was an inherently good institution.
Parliament had ignored Burke's previous appeals
the American colonies would find another nation to govern them if Parliament pulled away its support.
Parliament was too entangled in the slave trade to maintain relations with America
Passage A states that Edmund Burke's first effort to change British treatment of the American colonies was
ineffective
too emotional
belated
incoherent
Passage B states that Thomas Paine made some effort to defend:
King George III
King Louis XVI
Greek democracy
the English throne
One of the main purposes of lines 91 - 94 is to show that:
Paine experienced a change of heart after his persecution in France.
the French Revolution preserved safety and stability
liberty can only be achieved when individual safety is upheld.
Paine did not allow negative personal experiences to change his convictions.
As it is used in lines 79 - 83, the word accord most nearly means:
proportion
acknowledgement
agreement
length of rope
The author of Passage B most strongly implies that Thomas Paine was:
uneducated
stubborn
timid
compliant
Both Passage A and Passage B highlight the importance of which of the following in shaping attitudes towards the American and French Revolutions?
Byzantine emperors.
the Enlightenment
the British Parliament
King Louis XVI
Based on the description of Edmund Burke in Passage A and Thomas Paine in Passage B, which of the following statements best summarizes the differences between these men?
. Burke had faith in existing government structures, while Paine believed that all good government systems had already died out
. Burke expected the American Revolution to fail, while Paine was confident that it would succeed.
Burke understood his government to be without fault, while Paine was skeptical about the idea of a perfect government
Burke believed that good governments give equal attention to liberty and order, while Paine believed that liberty was most important.
