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Test Ten

Read each passage below , and then answer the questions that follow the passage . The correct response may be stated outright or merely suggested in the passage .

Questions 1 and 2 are based on the following passage .

            To elude slave catchers , the fugitive slave Frederick Baily changed the name , becoming Frederick Douglass , abolitionist spokesman and author . When he published his autobiography , however , Douglass exposed himself to recapture : federal laws gave Douglass’s ex-master the right to seize the property . Douglass traveled to Britain , where slavery was illegal : there he worked to gain support for America’s antislavery movement . After two years , British friends unexpectedly bought his freedom , allowing him to return home to continue the fight . Some abolitionists criticized Douglass , however , saying that by letting his freedom be bought he acknowledged his ex-master’s right to own him .

1 . The underlined word “property” most nearly means     

(A) parcel of land

(B) right of ownership

(C) characteristic trait

(D) personal possession

(E) particular virtue

2 . As described in lines 7 - 10 , the attitude of the abolitionists to the purchase of Douglass’s freedom can best be characterized as

(A) enthusiastic (B) indifferent (C) negative (D) envious (E) sympathetic

Questions 3 and 4 are based on the following passage

This excerpt from Mark Twain’s Roughing .It describes an animal Twain encountered during his travels in the West .

            The coyote is a long , slim , sick and sorry-looking skeleton , with a gray wolf-skin stretched over it , a tolerably bushy tail that forever sags down , a furtive and evil eye , and a long , sharp face , with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth . He has a general slinking expression all over . The coyote is a living , breathing allegory of Want . He is always hungry . He is always poor , out of luck , and friendless . The meanest creatures despise him , and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede .

3 . The passage above can best be characterized as an example of  

(A) scientific analysis

(B) nostalgic anecdote

(C) humorous exaggeration

(D) objective reportage

(E) lyrical description

4 . The underlined word “meanest” most nearly means

(A) most ordinary (B) most stingy (C) most ashamed(D) most effective (E) most contemptible