ACT Past Papers with Answers

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Source question 6. an altitude of three thousajjd feet up. au altitude of three thous and feet up in the air. It.is impossible to.talk-or protest-o <er the ' engines. roar. and the noise of the wiDd that blasts through

Source question 7. roar and the roar.. As the roar. Thc tbe op.en doorways on either side of the narrow fuselage. But your instructOT smiles confidendy. She gives you

For tkn sake of unity and coherence, Sentence I should be'placéd: where it is now. aft¢r Scnten¢e 3. You panic. You SCTeam, though no one can hear you. You think, you might becorne ill.

Source question 10. think, that you io .Fiirtbern]oEe, only Seconds pass b¢fore the statsc line. li wbich is a rope attached to you and to the floor of the

The writer wants to emphasize the violent actjoll Df the parachute opening at this point in the essay. Which of tbe choices would mcist succcssfully achieve this effect? .H. . becomes taut alld yanks opeD You feel like you are soaring upward, though actually .Acf-60E GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. you have only slowed down. You are sitting in.a srAug little harness. All is qiiiet

Source question 13. only, slowed down. only slowcd down? only slowed, down! as you begin to drift gently in the grcat blue sky and to appreciate your accDmplishment. Thus you dangling 14

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Source question 16. it is a fact that it has always been the case that

Source question 17. impatient with the wheezing, tinny, notes imp2tient with. the whcczing. tinny notes impatient, with the wheezing tinrjy notes, produced. Aftcr two weeks. effort, which.I would

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Source question 19. ' would of gone .C. go would of went.. always set the harmonica aside and had w¢Dt back to the baseball field. My fathcr was able to teach rne a fcw things about the'batmonica. For instance, he told me that it originated in southern C]aiJJa around 1100 B.C.. this early.versioll, the sheng, Gonsisted of long Ieeds placed in water in a wooden bowl, At. one time the

Source question 20. B,C.. the early. version, the sheng, consisted. GO ON TO THE NEXT PAG ACT.￿lE harmonica, which has its oritrins in ancient fhina, 21 was often confused with the armonica, a musical

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Source question 24. 24 instrument for folk and blues musicians. toy.- that Then, at age fifteen, I decided (o enroll

Which of the following sentences would best provide a logical transition from the precedino paragraph to th¢ new subject in this para¢raph? couldn't play. monica. C, As can be seen, I had always been interested in the h￿rnOn]ea. simplc children, s toy we so often think it is. in a blues harrnonica class. On the first ni(rht, the instructor, whom had performed in local rock bands

Source question 26. 26 foI years, guided rhe class thrDu(yh a tortuied versio whom once who had who did of Mary Had a Littlc Lamb." ACT.SOE GO ON TO THE NEXT. PAGE. [1] Then be played the sam¢ melody, but with such a pure, sad wail that, the entire class sat in 5tunncd silence when be, d

Source question 27. melody, but with such a pure, sad wail that Melody, but with'such a pure sad wail that, melody but, Wlih such a pure sad wail, that finished. [2] When we had finished, he'said, "That was 'Mary Had a Little LatlLb.' [3] He picked up his own harmonica. [4] "This, however, is 'Mary Had the Blues. [5] He lifted the instrnment to his lips. 28

For the. sakc of the unity and coherence of this para- graph, Sentence I should be placed: where it is now. after SenterAce 2. after Sentence 3. after Sentcncc 5. I returned hO￿e deterniined to learn to play well. I workcd to find thc right mouth holes &nd if I could bend the rioht notes. All week I wheezed throu QTb versions of

Source question 29. and and if I can 'Jingle Bells" and "Oh, Susanna., Finally, on the night before our llexf class, which I believe was a Wednesday,

Source question 30. which as I recall was a Wednesday,, in the middle of an attcmpt at "Old Folks at Home," I pursed my lips and.blew a sweet, piercintr note that filled. the room with lovely sound. I had finally played a proper note on the harmonica, and maybe I'll someday play the blues. PASSAGE 111 Shaking Up the Lanoll2ge It, s usually hard to determine who first uttered out lo'ud a given word and altllost as hard 31

Source question 31. spoke said verbally to know who first"wrote it down orioinally. It is 3Z

Source question 32. in the beginning. initially. With a period. known, however. Lhat William Shakespeare's plays immorcalized many of th'e words and expressions popular in his day. H&ve you ever said you were 3J

The writer is considering deleting the second clause in the pieceding scntence, cnding the sentence 'A'Lth a period aftcr the word work. If the writer did tliis. thc paragTaph would prirnarily lose: an example of how all expression changes in meaning over time. an irrelevatjt digression tbat underinines tbe para- graph, s logic. iDformation pIoviding a key transition to the next •1 paragraph. a det2il that contradicts the slaleLuent in.tbe first part of this sentencc. lago, tbe villain of the tragedy. Othello Stiivcs to undo Otbello, a iespected general. Iago falsely hints

Source question 37. tragedy, Oihello, C" tragedy Othello, that Desdemona, the wife of Othcllo, is in love with orle of Othellos. officers. To further confuse Othello, .38 lago warns him against being consumcd by doubts about his wife, calling jealousy a "green-eyed ]Lonster,"

Source question 38. orie of Othellos one of Othello's 2 now-COLDmOD tetm for that emotiDn. The Globe audience heard hundreds of otber expressions that.are now household words. In Henry V, Sb&kespeare used this very term to describe how the names of King Henry, s war heroes became as well knowll 39 to English pcople as simple .words used ill any howJehold.

Source question 41. included: include We also find illusions of Shakespeare, s wolds 42

Source question 42. illusions to allusions of allusions to in fllm. For instance, one of the Star Trek movies are

Source question 43. movies is movies, movies, which is subtitled "The Undiscovered Country,, a phrasE from one of H&Lnlet's speeches. Given Shakespearc's stron%y prcsencc, in speech and populaJ culture it seems likely that, even jn the fuluie, 44, F. NO CHANGE . G. preserjce in speech, and popular culture

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Source question 47. student, Maya Lin, student Maya Lin studcnt Maya Lin. 47 design the Vietllarn Veterans Metnorial. Although Lin's"nonrepresentational design initially stirred up a ¢ontrov6rsy, the completed monument has won widespread ACT-60E GO ON TOTHE NEXT PAGE. acclaim for a while now. Visitors to the monument

Source question 51. will apply applied Ulllted States history- 1988, she designed a

If the writer delctcd thc phrase "in diffeient parts of the country and" from the pr¢ceding sentence, the. essay would pIimarily lose: a broad clairn that is Dot supported by information elsewhere in the essav. a broad claim that is supported by details prc- seDted later in the essay, an observation that is out. of place in a sentence that focuses on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. an observation tbat undermirics claims made else- where in the paragraph. mcmorial to hol￿T individuals killed in the. civil rights movemellt. Located in Montgomery, Alaba￿a. . Maya Lin made thi&.WOTk collsist of a'low granite disk on •1

Source question 53. consisting which the names of the dead appear along with referenccs ACT-60E GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. to landmark events of the rnovement. In addition, my research turned up the following information.

If the writer deleted tbe precedino senténce, Ihe essay would primarily lose a; sense of ihc writer's atLeThtion to the details of Maya Lin's carecr. question p-osed earlier in the essay. someone wilh authority on the subject. refeience to the writer of the cssay that secms out of place in the absence of other such references.

Source question 55. which this the disk stands a granite wall bearing their inscription: 55 . UNTIL JUSTICE ROLLS DOWN LIKE WATERS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE A MIGHTY STREAM." Lin Selected . these words .from a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speeci

Given that all thc choices arc true, which one adds the most sptcific information to the essay. a speech given by Dr. Kiug ill the sixties, specifi- cally 1963, the "l Have & Dream" spcech by Dr. MartirA Luther King Jr. hirnself. Dream" speech, and ill the monument, water flows down the wall, over Dr. King's words. and out from the center of the disk. 57 i7. Y the opening sentence of this paracTr&pb {"While some sculptors suggest ") were deleted, the essay would primarily lose: a sharp criticism of the shortcomings. of works by Maya Lill, s colleagues in the field of sculpture. betw¢en Maya Lin and other sclllptors. the only"reason Maya Lin gives for choosing to work ill a fashion unlike that of raany otber sculp- tors. . D. the writer's opinion of who'has influenced M2ya' Lin in her career of designkng metnorials. Lin continues to challenge herself in a career that combines all appreciation for sculpture, architecture. and th¢ coirjplexity of human experience. A public library in 58 Ohio, a chapel in Pennsylvania. a train station in New

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Source question 58. complexity of the nature and characier characteristically complex and inherent complica- tions complicated character and complex nature York-thcst had been only some of the places that have 59 been influenced by Maya Lin. It is possible to come away

Source question 59. were from her work witb the sense that the distinctions we sometimes make between public and personal life are bluired in rnoments of genuine reflection. ACT.60E 10 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. Question 60 asks about the preceding passage as a whole.

Suppose Lhe writer had intended to wriie an essay focusing on public reactioTr to the Viétnam VeteraD.s Me]nor1￿. Would this essay fulfill the writer, s goal ? 'F, Yes, because tbe reaction of the public to the. Vietnam Veterans Memorial is described in gIeat detail. essay Lo a view of the rnOllu￿ent.baSrtd on first-. hand.expericncc.. part of a broader concern with its creator, who has produced llumeIous public structures. downplayed in the Gssay in favoI of objcctivc information. PASSAGE V Zora Neale Hllrston, Folklorist The H￿lett Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston is well knowll foi her novels, especially Their Eyes Wer Watching God, however, she was also a devoted chronicler 61

Source question 61. even so, of African Americall folklore. In her collection of Southern

Source question 62. with on . folktales, Mulej and Men, Hllrston, who was born and raised in EatonvJle, Florida,. suggested her unique qualification for this stlldy when shc said she had "the. map of Dixie on my tongu¢." While shc was stlldying anthropology at

Source question 64. recoDDect unite and games she had learned as a child. By ber own account, she tuok the wrong approach to gathering folkLore ivlien, Ill 192.7, she f￿st returned to the South.

Source question 65. that, and, ACT-ei 11 GO ON TO THE NExf PAGE. Wben she asked them if ihey knew any folktales, they

Source question 66. some of thern glanced at her nice car and "city" clothes, shook their heads, and told her lo look elsewhere. On ber next tiip, she headed straight to. her homeLown, vihere she alteady knew the people and the people knew her. In Eatonville, her hometown, Hurston went 07

Source question 68. WXIL be is store. s people gathered at the store her r￿st day

Source question 70. would be(yun Hurston akso visited Polk County, Florida, where she sponsored contests for the rnost imaginalive tall tale. The winneAS received prizes, and Hu:ston collected a wide vastness of folklore. After the contests, people came 7J

Source question 71. major chunk wealth Acf.60E 12 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. to her on their owrA to share even more stories.

Which of the following altern&tives to thc Underlined portion iiiould NOT be acceptable? still many much. Many of the tales Hurston heard during her Southern trips rcvealed interesting information.. 73 why the woodpecker has a red head, why the

Trhicli cboice provides the clearest and most precise preview of the tales listed .later in this sentence? alligatoi is black, OT how the snake got its rattles. explained the origins of animal charactcristics: offered important insigbt into the past. concerned long-ago events.. Other tales were exaggeratedly and hun]orous accounts 74 of barsh bosses and sm￿te￿ workers, or of trickster

Source question 74. exaggeratèdly humorously exaggerated humorously exaggerated, hurnorous animals such as, B Ter Rabbit and his cousins. In part 75 becaknsc of HuTSton'8 work, these VAbiaut SLOli es live on.

Source question 75. as Brer Rabbit as Brer R-bbi&, as, Brer Rabbit, END OF TEST 1 STOP! DO NOT TURN THE PAGE UNTIL TOLD.TO DO SO. Af.60E 13