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1. Beff is home because
1. he is making money.
2. he has no where to go.
3. he only gets $28 a week.
4. he isn't getting anywhere in life.
5. he misses Happy.
Biff thinks that Happy is happy because
1. he has money.
2. he is younger.
3. he has a lot of girlfriends.
4. he has a job.
5. he has an apartment and a car.
Happy can best be described by which sentence?
1. You can't run away from yourself.
2. An early bird gets the worm.
3. Money can't buy you happiness.
4. What goes around comes around.
5. You can run but you can't hide.
Why isn't the merchandise manager happy?
1. He is getting old.
2. He doesn't have enough money.
3. Happy is after his job.
4. Happy is about to quit his job.
5. The more he has, the more he wants.
We can conclude from this passage that Happy's name is
1. comparative
2. not his real name.
3. symbolic.
4. ironic.
5. personification
This Passage For Answer Question 6 - 10

What is the most likely meaning of “diverged” in “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (line 1)?
1. merged
2. gone
3. separated
4. eclipsed
5. adjacent
What would the speaker in this poem most likely do if he had to decide where to live?
1. worry that he made the bad choice
2. cannot decide where to live
3. choose the most beautiful place
4. think thoroughly before choosing it
5. consult his family members
Which of the following best describe the theme of the poem?
1. traveling as a pleasant experience
2. how exercising in the wood help you
3. refusing to make difficult choices
4. how decisions define people's lives
5. nature can change everything
What does the author mean by the line, “Because it was grassy and wanted wear”?
1. It was a well-traveled road
2. It was less traveled than the other
3. It look brighter on the other side
4. It led in the direction in which he had started out
5. It needed mowing
The speaker in this poem is most likely
1. a mother with children
2. a teenager
3. a middle-aged man
4. an old man
5. a young kid
This Passage For Answer Question 11 - 15

What is the most likely occupation of the narrator of the passage?
1. Teacher
2. Traveller
3. Landlord
4. Vagabond
5. Tenant farmer
What meaning is suggested by “stone-eyed” in the phrase “stone-eyed women” ( line 27)?
The women's eyes
1. look bored
2. seem to be happy
3. reveal no feeling
4. look dazzling
5. show conceitedness
According to this passage, if the one man one family identified in lines 1 and 2 were to win the lottery and buy a large tract of land, what would the man be unable to do?
1. return to the land he knew
2. continue on the journey westward
3. provide adequately for his family
4. take his family on a camping site
5. share a common bond with humanity
What is the overall purpose of this passage?
1. man and nature
2. nature and man
3. man and woman
4. socio-economic classes
5. man and supernatural
Paine, Jefferson, and Lenin all wrote about human rights and revolution. What connection exists between those writers and this passage?
Both the writers and the passage
1. have a lighthearted tone
2. drum up for peace
3. discuss social issues
4. analyze scientific problems
5. have both men and babies characters
This Passage For Answer Question 16 - 20

Which of the following best summarizes the excerpt?
1. All that troubled employers need is a sympathetic ear.
2. Employers neglected employees' well being.
3. Healthcare includes mental health as well as physical health.
4. An employer-sponsored program is available to help troubled employees.
5. Employees value domestic problems.
Which of the following best restates the phrase “Situations like these can impede an employee's ability to perform well” (lines 8-10)?
Situations like these can
1. make it difficult to excel at work
2. make it impossible to do a good job
3. make it necessary to hire better employee
4. make it the employer care more about employee
5. make deadline create more pressure to employers
What is the main idea of the second paragraph?
The EARS program
1. can help with various kinds of problems
2. can be of great value to the average employee
3. uses a confidential process for participation
4. has helped several employees in the past
5. supplements the medical insurance program
Which of the following best describes the style in which this excerpt is written?
1. dry and scholar
2. amusing and lighthearted
3. technical and formal
4. straightforward and matter-of-fact
5. detailed and elaborated
Which of the following problems could be helped through the EARS program?
1. having too much work
2. a desire to retire early
3. a shortage of adequate child care
4. feeling overwhelmed by a project
5. a problem with petty movement

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