Suppose the writer’s goal had been to write a brief per- suasive essay urging students to exercise their consti- tutional rights. Would this essay fulfill that goal? encouraged other students to exercise their consti- tutional rights. clothing historically worn by students as a free- dom of expression. wear blue jeans was not a substantial constitu- tional right in the 1970s. case of a student exercising a particular constitu- tional right. GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. ACT-61C-PRACTICE 1 1 20 41 42 42 42 43 44 Question 45 asks about the preceding passage as a whole. 40 PASSAGE IV The Case of the Trick Photographs You might think that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer who invented Sherlock Holmes, the most logical of detectives, would have harbored strictly logical beliefs himself. But the author entertained a variety of fanciful ideas, including a belief in the mythical beings known as fairies. Since that belief, he was fooled in 1920 by two schoolgirl cousins. One day, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths returned from a walk in the English countryside with news that they had seen fairies. They had even taken photographs that showed several of the tiny sprites, some dancing in a ring in the grass, some fluttering in front of the girl’s faces. Many people were excited when they heard about this seemingly true and factual proof of the existence of fairies, but Conan Doyle was more excited than most. To make sure that he wasn’t being deceived, Conan Doyle had the original photographic plates examined by experts, however, they found no evidence of double exposures. He then wrote an enthusiastic article for Strand magazine, being the place in which most of his Sherlock Holmes stories had first appeared, and later wrote a book on the subject titled The Coming of the Fairies. 47
