AA Digital SAT 2 - BlueBook App Test

In the early 1800s, the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah created the first script, or writing system, for an Indigenous language in the United States. Because it represented the sounds of spoken Cherokee so accurately, his script was easy to learn and thus quickly achieved ____ use: by 1830, over 90 percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it.
Question 1: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Like the 1945 play it reimagines–Federico García Lorca´s The House of Bernarda Alba–Marcus Gardley´s 2014 play The House That Will Not Stand prominently features women. In both plays, the all-female cast ____ an array of female characters, including a strong mother and several daughters dealing with individual struggles.
Question 2: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

During 2014 archaeological dig in Spain, Vicente Lull and his team Uncovered the skeleton of a woman from El Algar, an Early Bronze Age society, buried with valuable objects signaling a high position of power. This finding may persuade researchers who have argued that Bronze Age societies were ruled by men to ____ that women may have also held leadership roles.
Question 3: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

The following text is adapted from Oscar Wilde´s 1895 play The Importance of Being Earnest
CECILY: Have we got to part?
ALGERNON: I am afraid so. It's a very painful parting.
CECILY: It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
Question 4: As used in the text, what does the word “endure” most nearly mean?

The following text is from the 1924 poem “Cycle” by D'Arcy McNickle, who was a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

There shall be new roads wending,
A new beating of the drum–
Men's eyes shall have fresh seeing,
Grey lives reprise tier span–
But under the new sun's being,
Completing what night began,
There'll be the same backs bending,
The same sad feet shall drum—
When this night finds its ending
And day shall have come…..

Question 5: Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

The following text is from Charlotte Forten Grimké´s 1888 poem “At Newsport.”

Oh, deep delight to watch the gladsome waves
Exultant leap upon the rugged rocks;
Ever repulsed, yet ever rushing on–
Filled with a life that will not know defeat;
To see the glorious hues of sky and sea
The distant snowy sails, glide spirit like,
Into an unknown world, to feel the sweet
Enchantment of the sea thrill all the soul,
Clearing the clouded brain, making the heart
Leap joyous as it own bright, singing waves!

Question 6: Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?

The following text is adapted from Aphra Behn's 1689 novel The Lucky Mistake.Atlante and Rinaldo are neighbors who have been secretly exchanging letters through Charlot, Atlante's sister.

[Atlante] gave this letter to Charlot; who immediately ran into the balcony with it, where she still found Rinaldo in a melancholy posture, leaning his head on his hand: She showed him the letter, but was afraid to toss it to him, for fear it might fall to the ground: so he ran and fetched a long cane, which he cleft at one end, and held it while she put the letter into the cleft, and stayed not to hear what he said to it. But never was man so transported with joy, as he was at the reading of this letter; it gives him new wounds; for the generous, nothing obliges love so much as love.

Question 7: Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

The following text is adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel The Secret Garden. Mary, a young girl, recently found an overgrown hidden garden.

Mary was an odd, determined little person, and
now she had something interesting to be
determined about, she was very much absorbed,
indeed. She worked and dug and pulled up
weeds steadily, only becoming more pleased
with her work every hour instead of tiring of it.
It seemed to her like a fascinating sort of play.

Question 8: Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

Believing that living in an impractical space can heighten awareness and even improve health, conceptual artists Madeline Gins and Shusaku Arakawa designed an apartment building in Japan to be more fanciful than functional. A kitchen counter is chest-high on one side and knee-high on the other; a ceiling has a door to nowhere. The effect is disorienting but invigorating: after four years there, filmmaker Nobu Yamaoka reported significant health benefits.
Question 9: Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

The following text is from Maggie Pogue Johnson's 1910 poem “Poet of Our Race.” In this poem, the speaker is addressing Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Black author.

Thou, with stroke of mighty pen,
Hast told of joy and mirth,
And read the hearts and souls of men
As cradled from their birth.

The language of the flowers,
Thou hast read them all,
And e´en the little brook
Responded to thy call.

Question 10: Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

“To You” is an 1856 poem by Walt Whitman. In the poem, Whitman suggests that he deeply understands the reader, whom he addresses directly, writing, ____
Question 11: Which quotation from “To You” most effectively illustrates the claim?

Approximate Rates of Speech and Information Conveyed for Five Languages
A group of researchers working in Europe, Asia, and Oceania conducted a study to determine how quickly different Eurasian languages are typically spoken (in syllables per second) and how much information they can effectively convey (in bits per second). They found that, although languages vary widely in the speed at which they are spoken, the amount of information languages can effectively convey tends to vary much less. Thus, they claim that two languages with very different spoken rates can nonetheless convey the same amount of information in a given amount of time.
Question 12: Which choice best describes data from the table that support the researcher's claim?

To investigate the effect of lizard predation on spider populations, a student in a biology class placed spiders in two enclosures, one with lizards and one without, and tracked the number of spiders in the enclosures for 30 days. The student concluded that the reduction in the spider population count in the enclosure with lizards by day 30 was entirely attributable to the presence of the lizards.
Question 13: Which choice best describes data from the graph that weaken the student´s conclusion?

Although military veterans make up a small proportion of the total population of the United States, they occupy a significantly higher proportion of the jobs in the civilian government. One possible explanation for this disproportionate representation is that military service familiarizes people with certain organizational structures that are also reflected in the civilian government bureaucracy, and this familiarity thus ___
Question 14: Which choice most logically completes the text?

The city of Pompeii, which was buried in ash following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, continues to be studied by archaeologists. Unfortunately, as ____ attest, archaeological excavations have disrupted ash deposits at the site, causing valuable information about the eruption to be lost.
Question 15: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Seneca sculptor Marie Watts blanket art comes in a range of shapes and sizes. In 2004, Watt sewed strips of blankets together to craft a 10-by-13-inch ____ in 2014, she arranged flooded blankets into two large stacks and then cast them in bronze, creating two curving 18-foot-tall-blue-bronze pillars.
Question 16: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Gathering accurate data on water flow in the United States is challenging because of the country's millions of miles of ____ the volume and speed of water at any given location can vary drastically over time.
Question 17: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

In assessing the films of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, ________ have missed his equally deep engagement with Japanese artistic traditions such as Noh theater.
Question 18: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Joshua Hinson, director of the language revitalization program of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, helped produce the world's first Indigenous-language instructional app, Chickasaw ____ Chickasaw TV, in 2010; and a Rosetta Stone language course in Chickasaw, in 2015.
Question 19: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A group of ecologists led by Axel Mithofer at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany examined the defensive responses of two varieties of the sweet potato ____ TN57, which is known for its insect resistance, and TN66, which is much more susceptible to pests.
Question 20: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

When, in the 1800s, geologists first realized that much of Earth had once been covered by great sheets of ice, some theorized that the phenomenon was cyclical, occurring at regular intervals. Each Ice Age is so destructive, though, that it largely erases the geological evidence of its predecessor. ____ geologists were unable to confirm the theory of cyclical Ice Ages until the 1960s.
Question 21: Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• The Seikan Tunnel is a rail tunnel in Japan.
• It connects the island of Honshu to the island of Hokkaido.
• It is roughly 33 miles long.
• The Channel Tunnel is a rail tunnel in Europe.
• It connects Folkestone, England, to Coquelles, France.
• It is about 31 miles long.

Question 22: The student wants to compare the lengths of the two rail tunnels. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Ancient Native American and Australian Aboriginal cultures described the Pleiades star cluster as having seven stars.
• It was referred to as the Seven Sisters in the mythology of ancient Greece.
• Today, the cluster appears to have only six stars.
• Two of the stars have moved so close together that they now appear as one.

Question 23: The student wants to specify the reason the Pleiades´ appearance changed. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information form the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Pinnipeds, which include seals, sea lions, and walruses, live in and around water.
• Pinnipeds are descended not from sea animals but from four-legged, land-dwelling carnivores.
• Canadian paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski recently found a fossil with four legs, webbed toes, and the skull and teeth of a seal.
• Rybczynski refers to her rare find as a “transitional fossil”.
• The fossil illustrates an early stage in the evolution of pinnipeds from their land-dwelling ancestors.

Question 24: The student wants to emphasize the fossil´s significance. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Gaspar Enriquez is an artist.
• He specializes in portraits of Mexican Americans.
• A portrait is an artistic representation of a person.
• Enriquez completed a painting of the sculptor Luis Jimenez in 2003.
• He completed a drawing of the writer Rudolfo Anaya in 2016.

Question 25: The student wants to emphasize a difference between the two portraits. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Las sergas de Esplandián was a novel popular in sixteenth-century Spain.
• The novel featured a fictional island inhabited solely by Black women and known as California.
• That same century, Spanish explorers learned of an “island” off the west coast of Mexico.
• They called it California after the island in the novel.
• The “island” was actually the peninsula now known as Baja California (“Lower California”), which lies to the south of the US state of California.

Question 26: The student wants to emphasize the role a misconception played in the naming of a place. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• In 1851, German American artist Emanuel Leutze painted Washington Crossing the Delaware.
• His huge painting (149 x 255 inches) depicts the first US president crossing a river with soldiers in the Revolutionary War.
• In 2019, Cree artist Kent Monkman painted mistikosiwak (Wooden Boat People): Resurgence of the People.
• Monkman's huge painting (132 x 264 inches) was inspired by Leutze's.
• It portrays Indigenous people in a boat rescuing refugees.

Question 27: The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two paintings. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

As Mexico's first president from an Indigenous community. Benito Juarez became one of the most ____ figures in his country's history: among the many significant accomplishments of his long tenure in office (1858-1872), Juarez consolidated the authority of the national government and advanced the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Question 1: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Nigerian American author Teju Cole's ____ his two passions–photography and the written word—culminates in his 2017 book, Blind Spot, which evocatively combines his original photographs from his travels with his poetic prose.
Question 2: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Artificially delivering biomolecules to plant cells is an important component of protecting plants from pathogens, but it is difficult to transmit biomolecules through the layers of the plant cell wall. Markita del Carpio Landry and her colleagues have shown that it may be possible to ____ this problem by transmitting molecules through carbon nanotubes, which can cross cell walls.
Question 3: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

According to Potawatomi ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer. the Indigenous method of harvesting Hierochloe odorata, or sweetgrass, by snapping the plant off at the root actually ____ wild populations: it may seem counterintuitive, she says, but this method of removal allows new sweetgrass plants to repopulate the space, with an overall increase in number and vigor.
Question 4: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Research conducted by planetary scientist Katarina MIljkovic suggests that the Moon's surface may not accurately ____ early impact events. When the Moon was still forming, its surface was softer, and asteroid or meteoroid impacts would have left less of an impression; thus, evidence of early impacts may no longer be present.
Question 5: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Anthropologist Kristian J. Carlson and colleagues examined the fossilized clavicle and shoulder bones of a 3.6-million-year-old early hominin known as "Little Foot." They found that these bones were ____ the clavicle and shoulder bones of modern apes that are frequent climbers, such as gorillas and chimpanzees, suggesting that Little Foot had adapted to life in the trees.
Question 6: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

The Cambrian explosion gets its name from the sudden appearance and rapid diversification of animal remains in the fossil record about 541 million years ago, during the Cambrian period. Some scientists argue that this ____ change in the fossil record might be because of a shift in many organisms to body types that were more likely to be preserved.
Question 7: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Text 1
In 2007, a team led by Alice Storey analyzed a chicken bone found in El Arenal. Chile, dating it to 1321-1407 CE—over a century before Europeans invaded the region, bringing their own chickens. Storey also found that the El Arenal chicken shared a unique genetic mutation with the ancient chicken breeds of the Polynesian Islands in the Pacific. Thus, Polynesian peoples, not later Europeans, probably first introduced chickens to South America.
Text 2
An Australian research team weakened the case for a Polynesian origin for the El Arenal chicken by confirming that the mutation identified by Storey has occurred in breeds from around the world. More recently, though, a team led by Agusto Luzuriaga-Neira found that South American chicken breeds and Polynesian breeds share other genetic markers that European breeds lack. Thus, the preponderance of evidence now favors a Polynesian origin.
Question 8: Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the underlined claim in Text 1?

The following text is adapted from Edith Nesbit's 1906 novel The Railway Children.

Mother did not spend all her time in paying dull [visits] to dull ladies, and sitting dully at home waiting for dull ladies to pay [visits] to her. She was almost always there, ready to play with the children, and read to them, and help them to do their home-lessons. Besides this she used to write stories for them while they were at school, and read them aloud after tea, and she always made up funny pieces of poetry for their birthdays and for other great occasions.

Question 9: According to the text, what is true about Mother?

Many insects are iridescent, or have colors that appear to shimmer and change when seen from different angles. Scientists have assumed that this feature helps to attract mates but could also attract predators. But biologist Karin Kjernsmo and a team had the idea that the shifting appearance of colors might actually make it harder for other animals to see iridescent insects. To test this idea, the team put beetle forewings on leaves along a forest path and then asked human participants to look for them. Some of the wings were naturally iridescent. Others were painted with a nonchanging color from the iridescent spectrum, such as purple or blue.
Question 10: Which finding, if true, would most directly support the team's idea?

Many plants lose their leaf color when exposed to kanamycin, an antibiotic produced by some soil microorganisms. Spelman College biologist Mentewab Ayalew and her colleagues hypothesized that plants' response to kanamycin exposure involves altering their uptake of metals, such as iron and zinc. The researchers grew two groups of seedlings of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, half of which were exposed to kanamycin and half of which were a control group without exposure to kanamycin, and measured the plants' metal content five days after germination.
Question 11: Which choice best describes data in the graph that support Ayalew and her colleagues' hypothesis?

"When Dawn Comes to the City" is a 1922 poem by Claude McKay, who immigrated to the United States from the island nation of Jamaica as an adult. The poem conveys McKay's contrasting feelings about New York City—his adopted home in the US—and his home country: ____
Question 12: Which quotation from "When Dawn Comes to the City" most effectively illustrates the claim?

Boldly mixing elements of poetry, fiction, drama, philosophy, and manifesto, Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi creates cross-genre literature that explores themes such as immigration and independence. Her works have inspired responses from individuals across different fields and in a wide range of formats. from musical compositions and a comic book to architecture and furniture design. In an essay, a student asserts that the production of these diverse creations by others is reflective of Braschi's own approach to crafting literature.
Question 13: Which quotation from a scholarly review of Braschi's work best supports the student's claim?

Many mosquito repellents contain natural components that work by activating multiple odor receptors on mosquitoes' antennae. As the insects develop resistance, new repellents are needed. Ke Dong and her team found that EBF, a molecular component of a chrysanthemum-flower extract. can repel mosquitoes by activating just one odor receptor—and this receptor, Or31, is present in all mosquito species known to carry diseases. Therefore, the researchers suggest that in developing new repellents, it would be most useful to ____
Question 14: Which choice most logically completes the text?

Volunteering, or giving time for a community service for free, is a valuable form of civic engagement because helping in a community is also good for society as a whole. In a survey of youths in the United States, most young people said that they believe volunteering is a way to help people on an individual level. Meanwhile, only 6% of the youths said that they think volunteering is a way to help fix problems in society overall. These replies suggest that _____
Question 15: Which choice most logically completes the text?

Atoms in a synchrotron, a type of circular particle accelerator, travel faster and faster until they ____ a desired energy level, at which point they are diverted to collide with a target, smashing the atoms.
Question 16: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

When writing The Other Black Girl(2021), novelist Zakiya Dalila Harris drew on her own experiences working at a publishing office. The award-winning book is Harris's first novel, but her writing ____ honored before. At the age of twelve, she entered a contest to have a story published in American Girl magazine–and won.
Question 17: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

In winter, the diets of Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, are influenced more by food availability than by food preference. Although the monkeys prefer to eat vegetation and land-dwelling invertebrates, those food sources may become unavailable because of extensive snow and ice cover, ____ the monkeys to hunt for marine animals in any streams that have not frozen over.
Question 18: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

In the historical novel The Surrender Tree, Cuban American author Margarita Engle uses poetry rather than prose ____ the true story of Cuban folk hero Rosa La Bayamesa.
Question 19: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Former First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt and Indian activist and educator Hansa Mehta were instrumental in drafting the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that ____ the basic freedoms to which all people are entitled.
Question 20: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Literary agents estimate that more than half of all nonfiction books credited to a celebrity or other public figure are in fact written by ghostwriters, professional authors who are paid to write other ____ but whose names never appear on book covers.
Question 21: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Formed in 1967 to foster political and economic stability within the Asia-Pacific region, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was originally made up of five members: Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. By the end of the 1990s, the organization ____ its initial membership.
Question 22: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

In the 1950s, a man named Joseph McVicker was struggling to keep his business afloat when his sister-in-law Kay Zufall advised him to repurpose the company's product, a nontoxic, clay-like substance for removing soot from wallpaper, as a modeling putty for kids. In addition, Zufall ____ selling the product under a child-friendly name: Play-Doh.
Question 23: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Etched into Peru's Nazca Desert are line drawings so large that they can only be fully seen from high above. Archaeologists have known of the lines since the 1920s, when a researcher spotted some from a nearby foothill, and they have been studying the markings ever since. ____ archaeologists' efforts are aided by drones that capture high-resolution aerial photographs of the lines.
Question 24: Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Organisms have evolved a number of surprising adaptations to ensure their survival in adverse conditions. Tadpole shrimp (Triops longicaudatus) embryos, ____ can pause development for over ten years during extended periods of drought.
Question 25: Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

During a 2021 launch, Rocket Labs' Electron rocket experienced an unexpected failure: Its second-stage booster shut down suddenly after ignition. ____ instead of downplaying the incident, Rocket Labs' CEO publicly acknowledged what happened and apologized for the loss of the rocket's payload. which had consisted of two satellites.
Question 26: Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

In 1933, the Twentieth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. The amendment mandates that presidential inaugurations be held on January 20, approximately ten weeks after the November election. ____ this amendment requires newly elected US senators and representatives to be sworn into their respective offices on January 3.
Question 27: Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

In addition to being an accomplished psychologist himself, Francis Cecil Sumner was a ____ increasing the opportunity for Black students to study psychology, helping to found the psychology department at Howard University, a historically Black university, in 1930.
Question 1: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

For her 2021 art installation Anthem, Wu Tsang joined forces with singer and composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland to produce a piece that critics found truly ____: they praised Tsang for creatively transforming a museum rotunda into a dynamic exhibit by projecting filmed images of Glenn-Copeland onto a massive 84-foot curtain and filling the space with the sounds of his and other voices singing.
Question 2: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Scholarly discussions of gender in Shakespeare's comedies often celebrate the rebellion of the playwright's characters against the rigid expectations ____ by Elizabethan society. Most of the comedies end in marriage, with characters returning to their socially dictated gender roles after previously defying them, but there are some notable exceptions.
Question 3: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

The work of Kiowa painter T.C. Cannon derives its power in part from the tension among his ____ Influences: classic European portraiture, with Its realistic treatment of faces; the American pop art movement, with its vivid colors; and flatstyle, the intertribal painting style that rejects the effect of depth typically achieved through shading and perspective.
Question 4: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Text 1
Conventional wisdom long held that human social systems evolved in stages, beginning with hunter-gatherers forming small bands of members with roughly equal status. The shift to agriculture about 12,000 years ago sparked population growth that led to the emergence of groups with hierarchical structures: associations of clans first, then chiefdoms, and finally, bureaucratic states.
Text 2
In a 2021 book, anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow maintain that humans have always been socially flexible, alternately forming systems based on hierarchy and collective ones with decentralized leadership. The authors point to evidence that as far back as 50,000 years ago some hunter-gatherers adjusted their social structures seasonally, at times dispersing in small groups but also assembling into communities that included esteemed individuals.
Question 5: Based on the texts, how would Graeber and Wengrow (Text 2) most likely respond to the "conventional wisdom" presented in Text 1?

In 1934 physicist Eugene Wigner posited the existence of a crystal consisting entirely of electrons in a honeycomb-like structure. The so-called Wigner crystal remained largely conjecture, however, until Feng Wang and colleagues announced in 2021 that they had captured an image of one. The researchers trapped electrons between two semiconductors and then cooled the apparatus, causing the electrons to settle into a crystalline structure. By inserting an ultrathin sheet of graphene above the crystal, the researchers obtained an impression–the first visual confirmation of the Wigner crystal.
Question 6: Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

For many years, the only existing fossil evidence of mixopterid eurypterids—an extinct family of large aquatic arthropods known as sea scorpions and related to modern arachnids and horseshoe crabs–came from four species living on the paleocontinent of Laurussia. In a discovery that expands our understanding of the geographical distribution of mixopterids, paleontologist Bo Wang and others have identified fossilized remains of a new mixopterid species, Terropterus xiushanensis, that lived over 400 million years ago on the paleocontinent of Gondwana.
Question 7: According to the text, why was Wang and his team's discovery of the Terropterus xiushanensis fossil significant?

The following text is adapted from Edith Nesbit's 1906 novel The Railway Children.

Mother did not spend all her time in paying dull [visits] to dull ladies, and sitting dully at home waiting for dull ladies to pay [visits] to her. She was almost always there, ready to play with the children, and read to them, and help them to do their home-lessons. Besides this she used to write stories for them while they were at school, and read them aloud after tea, and she always made up funny pieces of poetry for their birthdays and for other great occasions.

Question 8: According to the text, what is true about Mother?

"The Young Girl" is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. In the story, the narrator takes an unnamed seventeen-year-old girl and her younger brother out for a meal. In describing the teenager, Mansfield frequently contrasts the character's pleasant appearance with her unpleasant attitude, as when Mansfield writes of the teenager, ____
Question 9: Which quotation from "The Young Girl" most effectively illustrates the claim?

The largest tyrannosaurids—the family of carnivorous dinosaurs that includes Tarbosaurus, Albertosaurus, and, most famously, Tyrannosaurus rex–are thought to have had the strongest bites of any land animals in Earth's history. Determining the bite force of extinct animals can be difficult, however, and paleontologists Paul Barrett and Emily Rayfield have suggested that an estimate of dinosaur bite force may be significantly influenced by the methodology used in generating that estimate.
Question 10: Which choice best describes data from the table that support Barrett and Rayfield's suggestion?

When digging for clams, their primary food, sea otters damage the roots of eelgrass plants growing on the seafloor. Near Vancouver Island in Canada, the otter population is large and well established, yet the eelgrass meadows are healthier than those found elsewhere off Canada's coast. To explain this, conservation scientist Erin Foster and colleagues compared the Vancouver Island meadows to meadows where otters are absent or were reintroduced only recently. Finding that the Vancouver Island meadows have a more diverse gene pool than the others do, Foster hypothesized that damage to eelgrass roots increases the plant's rate of sexual reproduction; this, in turn, boosts genetic diversity, which benefits the meadow's health overall.
Question 11: Which finding, if true, would most directly undermine Foster's hypothesis?

In the mountains of Brazil, Barbacenia tomentosa and Barbacenia macrantha–two plants in the Velloziaceae family–establish themselves on soilless, nutrient-poor patches of quartzite rock. Plant ecologists Anna Abrahão and Patricia de Britto Costa used microscopic analysis to determine that the roots of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha, which grow directly into the quartzite, have clusters of fine hairs near the root tip; further analysis indicated that these hairs secrete both malic and citric acids. The researchers hypothesize that the plants depend on dissolving underlying rock with these acids, as the process not only creates channels for continued growth but also releases phosphates that provide the vital nutrient phosphorus.
Question 12: Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers' hypothesis?

Ancestral Puebloans, the civilization from which present-day Pueblo tribes descended, emerged as early as 1500 B.C.E. in an area of what is now the southwestern United States and dispersed suddenly in the late 1200s C.E., abandoning established villages with systems for farming crops and turkeys. Recent analysis comparing turkey remains at Mesa Verde, one such village in southern Colorado, to samples from modern turkey populations in the Rio Grande Valley of north central New Mexico determined that the latter birds descended in part from turkeys cultivated at Mesa Verde, with shared genetic markers appearing only after 1280. Thus, researchers concluded that ____
Question 13: Which choice most logically completes the text?

Ratified by more than 90 countries, the Nagoya Protocol is an international agreement ensuring that Indigenous communities are compensated when their agricultural resources and knowledge of wild plants and animals are utilized by agricultural corporations. However, the protocol has shortcomings. For example, it allows corporations to Insist that their agreements with communities to conduct research on the commercial uses of the communities' resources and knowledge remain confidential. Therefore, some Indigenous advocates express concern that the protocol may have the unintended effect of ____
Question 14: Which choice most logically completes the text?

The domestic sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) descends from a wild plant native to South America. It also populates the Polynesian Islands, where evidence confirms that Native Hawalians and other Indigenous peoples were cultivating the plant centuries before seafaring first occurred over the thousands of miles of ocean separating them from South America. To explain how the sweet potato was first introduced in Polynesia, botanist Pablo Muñoz-Rodriguez and colleagues analyzed the DNA of numerous varieties of the plant, concluding that Polynesian varieties diverged from South American ones over 100,000 years ago. Given that Polynesia was peopled only in the last three thousand years, the team concluded that ____
Question 15: Which choice most logically completes the text?

In Death Valley National Park's Racetrack Playa, a flat, dry lakebed, are 162 rocks–some weighing less than a pound but others almost 700 pounds–that move periodically from place to place, seemingly of their own volition. Racetrack-like trails in the ____ mysterious migration.
Question 16: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta's celebrated literary oeuvre includes The Joys of Motherhood, a novel about the changing roles of women in 1950s ____ a television play about the private struggles of a newlywed couple in Nigeria; and Head Above Water, her autobiography.
Question 17: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

In 2016, engineer Vanessa Galvez oversaw the installation of 164 bioswales, vegetated channels designed to absorb and divert stormwater, along the streets of Queens, New York. By reducing the runoff flowing into city sewers, ____
Question 18: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

From afar, African American fiber artist Bisa Butler's portraits look like paintings, their depictions of human faces, bodies, and clothing so intricate that it seems only a fine brush could have rendered them. When viewed up close, however, the portraits reveal themselves to be ____ stitching barely visible among the thousands of pieces of printed, microcut fabric.
Question 19: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Compared to that of alumina glass, ____ silica glass atoms are so far apart that they are unable to re-form bonds after being separated.
Question 20: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

In the historical novel The Surrender Tree, Cuban American author Margarita Engle uses poetry rather than prose ____ the true story of Cuban folk hero Rosa La Bayamesa.
Question 21: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Sociologist Alton Okinaka sits on the review board tasked with adding new sites to the Hawaii Register of Historic Places, which includes Pi'ilanihale Heiau and the ʻŌpaekaʻa Road Bridge. Okinaka doesn't make such decisions ____ all historical designations must be approved by a group of nine other experts from the fields of architecture, archaeology, history, and Hawailan culture.
Question 22: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

When Chinese director Chloé Zhao accepted the Oscar in 2021 for her film Nomadland, she made Academy Award history. ____ only one other woman, Kathryn Bigelow of the United States, had been named best director at the Oscars, making Zhao the second woman and the first Asian woman to win the award
Question 23: Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Researchers Helena Mihaljevic-Brandt, Lucia Santamaría, and Marco Tullney report that while mathematicians may have traditionally worked alone, evidence points to a shift in the opposite direction. ____ mathematicians are choosing to collaborate with their peers–a trend illustrated by a rise in the number of mathematics publications credited to multiple authors.
Question 24: Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

When soil becomes contaminated by toxic metals, it can be removed from the ground and disposed of in a landfill. ____ contaminated soil can be detoxified via phytoremediation: plants that can withstand high concentrations of metals absorb the pollutants and store them in their shoots, which are then cut off and safely disposed of, preserving the health of the plants.
Question 25: Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• In the late 1890s, over 14,000 unique varieties of apples were grown in the US.
• The rise of industrial agriculture in the mid-1900s narrowed the range of commercially grown crops.
• Thousands of apple varieties considered less suitable for commercial growth were lost.
• Today, only 15 apple varieties dominate the market, making up 90% of apples purchased in the US.
• The Lost Apple Project, based in Washington State, attempts to find and grow lost apple varieties.

Question 26: The student wants to emphasize the decline in unique apple varieties in the US and specify why this decline occurred. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• The Atlantic Monthly magazine was first published in 1857.
• The magazine focused on politics, art, and literature.
• In 2019, historian Cathryn Halverson published the book Faraway Women and the "Atlantic Monthly."
• Its subject is female authors whose autobiographies appeared in the magazine in the early 1900s.
• One of the authors discussed is Juanita Harrison.

Question 27: The student wants to introduce Cathryn Halverson's book to an audience already familiar with the Atlantic Monthly. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

4x + 6 = 18
Question 1: Which equation has the same solution as the given equation?

Question 2: In the figure, line m is parallel to line n. What is the value of w?

Each value in the data set shown represents the height, in centimeters, of a plant.
6, 10, 13, 2, 15, 22, 10, 4, 4, 4
Question 3: What is the mean height, in centimeters, of these plants?

2.5b + 5r = 80
Question 4:The given equation describes the relationship between the number of birds, b, and the number of reptiles, r, that can be cared for at a pet care business on a given day. If the business cares for 16 reptiles on a given day, how many birds can it care for on this day?

Question 5:A cube has an edge length of 41 inches. What is the volume, in cubic inches, of the cube?

Question 6: 13 is p% of 25. What is the value of p?

Question 7: A model predicts that the population of Springfield was 15,000 in 2005. The model also predicts that each year for the next 5 years, the population p increased by 4% of the previous year's population. Which equation best represents this model, where x is the number of years after 2005, for x ≤ 5?

\(-4x^2 - 7x = -36\)
Question 8: What is the positive solution to the given equation?

Question 9: Each of the dot plots shown represents the number of glue sticks brought in by each student for two classes, class A and class B. Which statement best compares the standard deviations of the numbers of glue sticks brought in by each student for these two classes?

Question 10: The graph of ƒ(x) is shown, where the function ƒ is defined by ƒ(x) = ax³ + bx² + cx + d and a, b, c, and d are constants. For how many values of x does ƒ(x) = 0?

Question 11: The exponential function g is defined by \(g(x) = 19 \cdot a^x\), where a is a positive constant. If g(3) = 2,375, what is the value of g(4)?

y = (x-2)(x+4)
y= 6x - 12
Question 12: Which ordered pair (x,y) is the solution to the given system of equations?

Question 13: Triangle FGH is similar to triangle JKL, where angle F corresponds to angle J and angles G and K are right angles. If sin(F) = 308/317, what is the value of sin(J)?

Question 14: The function \(f(t) = 60000 \left(2\right)^{\frac{t}{410}}\) gives the number of bacteria in a population t minutes after an initial observation. How much time, in minutes, does it take for the number of bacteria in the population to double?

\(P = \frac{k}{4j+9}\)
Question 15: The given equation relates the distinct positive numbers p, k and j. Which equation correctly expresses 4j + 9 in terms of p and k?

Question 16: Line p is defined by 4y + 8x = 6. Line r is perpendicular to line p in the xy-plane. What is the slope of line r?

Question 17: Point O is the center of a circle. The measure of arc RS on this circle is 100°. What is the measure, in degrees, of its associated angle ROS?

Question 18: Which of the following could be the equation of the graph shown in the xy plane?

For x > 0, the function ƒ is defined as follows:
ƒ(x) equals 201% of x
Question 19: Which of the following could describe this function?

ƒ(x) = 4x² + 64x + 262
Question 20: The function g is defined by g(x) = ƒ(x + 5). For what value of x does g(x) reach its minimum?

Question 21: The table shows the results of a poll. A total of 803 voters selected at random were asked which candidate they would vote for in the upcoming election. According to the poll, if 6,424 people vote in the election, by how many votes would Angel Cruz be expected to win?

y = 2x² - 21x + 64
y = 3x + a
Question 22: In the given system of equations, a is a constant. The graphs of the equations in the given system intersect at exactly one point, (x, y), in the xy-plane. What is the value of x?

k + 12 = 336
Question 1: What is the solution to the given equation?

Question 2: Based on the line graph, in which year was the estimated number of chipmunks in the state park the greatest?

Question 3: What is the y-intercept of the graph shown?

Question 4: What length, in centimeters, is equivalent to a length of 51 meters? (1 meter = 100 centimeters)

Question 5: An angle has a measure of \(\frac{16\pi}{15}\) radians. What is the measure of the angle, in degrees?

Questions 6: If y = 5x + 10, what is the value of y when x = 8?

Question 7: For a training program, Juan rides his bike at an average rate of 5.7 minutes per mile. Which function m models the number of minutes it will take Juan to ride x miles at this rate?

Question 8: Nasir bought 9 storage bins that were each the same price. He used a coupon for $63 off the entire purchase. The cost for the entire purchase after using the coupon was $27. What was the original price, in dollars, for 1 storage bin?

|x - 5| = 10
Question 9: What is one possible solution to the given equation?

Question 10: 3 more than 8 times a number x is equal to 83. Which equation represents this situation?

Question 11: Which expression is equivalent to 9x² + 5x?

Question 12: Which expression is equivalent to \((2x^2 + x - 9) + (x^2 + 6x + 1)\)?

x + y = 18
5y = x
Question 13: What is the solution (x,y) to the given system of equations?

Question 14: For the linear function ƒ, the table shows three values of x and their corresponding values of ƒ(x). Which equation defines ƒ(x)?

Question 15: For the right triangle shown, a = 4 and b = 5. Which expression represents the value of c?

Question 16: What is the area, in square centimeters, of a rectangle with a length of 34 centimeters (cm) and a width of 29 cm?

Question 17: What is an equation of the graph shown?

Question 18: The function p is defined by p(n) = 7n³. What is the value of n when p(n) is equal to 56?

Question 19: The function ƒ is defined by ƒ(x) = 7x - 84. What is the x-intercept of the graph of y = ƒ(x) in the xy-plane?

Question 20: A moving truck can tow a trailer if the combined weight of the trailer and the boxes it contains is no more than 4,600 pounds. What is the maximum number of boxes this truck can tow in a trailer with a weight of 500 pounds if each box weighs 120 pounds?

Question 21: A wire with a length of 106 inches is cut into two parts. One part has a length of x inches, and the other part has a length of y inches. The value of x is 6 more than 4 times the value of y. What is the value of x?

Question 22: In triangles ABC and DEF, angles B and E each have measure 27° and angles C and F each have measure 41°. Which additional piece of information is sufficient to determine whether triangle ABC is congruent to triangle DEF?

3x = 12
-3x + y = -6
Question 1: The solution to the given system of equations is (x, y). What is the value of y?

Question 2: Which expression is equivalent to 11x³ - 5x³?

66x = 66x
Question 3: How many solutions does the given equation have?

Question 4: A proposal for a new library was included on an election ballot. A radio show stated that 3 times as many people voted in favor of the proposal as people who voted against it. A social media post reported that 15,000 more people voted in favor of the proposal than voted against it. Based on these data, how many people voted against the proposal?

Question 5: Caleb used juice to make popsicles. The function ƒ(x) = -5x + 30 approximates the volume, in fluid ounces, of juice Caleb had remaining after making x popsicles. Which statement is the best interpretation of the y-intercept of the graph of y = ƒ(x) in the xy-plane in this context?

Question 6:An angle has a measure of \(\frac{16\pi}{15}\) radians. What is the measure of the angle, in degrees?

\(y \leq x + 7\)
\(y \geq -2x - 1\)
Question 7: Which point (x,y) is a solution to the given system of inequalities in the xy-plane?

Question 8: A right triangle has legs with lengths of 24 centimeters and 21 centimeters. If the length of this triangle's hypotenuse, in centimeters, can be written in the form \(3 \sqrt{d}\), where d is an integer, what is the value of d?

Question 9: Data set A and data set B each consist of 27 values. The table shows the frequencies of the values for each data set. Which of the following statements best compares the means of the two data sets?

Question 10: Triangle XYZ is similar to triangle RST such that X, Y, and Z correspond to R, S, and T, respectively. The measure of \(\angle Z\) is 20° and 2XY = RS. What is the measure of \(\angle T\)?

Question 11: Keenan made 32 cups of vegetable broth. Keenan then filled x small jars and y large jars with all the vegetable broth he made. The equation 3x + 5y = 32 represents this situation. Which is the best interpretation of 5y in this context?

x(x + 1) - 56 = 4x(x - 7)
Question 12: What is the sum of the solutions to the given equation?

Question 13: The function \(f(x) = \frac{1}{9}(x - 7)^2 + 3\) gives a metal ball's height above the ground f(x), in inches, x seconds after it started moving on a track, where \(0 \leq x \leq 10\). Which of the following is the best interpretation of the vertex of the graph of y = ƒ(x) in the xy-plane?

\(F(x) = \frac{9}{5} (x - 273.15) + 32\)
Question 14: The function F gives the temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit, that corresponds to a temperature of x kelvins. If a temperature increased by 2.10 kelvins, by how much did the temperature increase, in degrees Fahrenheit?

Question 15: The table gives the coordinates of two points on a line in the xy-plane. The y-intercept of the line is (k - 5, b), where k and b are constants. What is the value of b?

Question 16: One of the factors of 2x³ + 42x² + 208x is x + b, where b is a positive constant. What is the smallest possible value of b?

Question 17: The function ƒ is defined by ƒ(x) = 7x - 84. What is the x-intercept of the graph of y = ƒ(x) in the xy-plane?

Question 18: A certain park has an area of 11,863,808 square yards. What is the area, in square miles, of this park? (1 mile = 1,760 yards)

Question 19: One gallon of paint will cover 220 square feet of a surface. A room has a total wall area of w square feet. Which equation represents the total amount of paint P, in gallons, needed to paint the walls of the room twice?

48x - 72y = 30y + 24
ry = ⅙ - 16x
Question 20: In the given system of equations, r is a constant. If the system has no solution, what is the value of r?

\(\frac{x^2}{\sqrt{x^2 - c^2}} = \frac{c^2}{\sqrt{x^2 - c^2}} + 39\)
Question 21: In the given equation, c is a positive constant. Which of the following is one of the solutions to the given equation?

ƒ(x) = ax² + 4x + c
Question 22: In the given quadratic function, a and c are constants. The graph of y = ƒ(x) in the xy-plane is a parabola that opens upward and has a vertex at the point (h, k), where h and k are constants. If k < 0 and ƒ(- 9) = ƒ(3), which of the following must be true?
I. c < 0
II. \(a \geq 1\)