Medical Sat Calculus History 35 English Problems

Medical Sat Calculus History 35 English Problems

1.

(LC)

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells [1898]


But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be

inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the

World?…And how are all things made for man?—

KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth
century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as
men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised
and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope
might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a
drop of water.
With infinite complacency men went to and
fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their
assurance of their empire over matter
. No one gave a
thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or
thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible
or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of
those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be
other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome
a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are
to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects
vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes,
and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the
twentieth century came the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,
up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that
intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,
beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since
Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial
area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not
only more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has
already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is
still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial
region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest
winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have
shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow
seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and
periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of
exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a
present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure
of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and
hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and
intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its
nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning
star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with
water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses
through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country
and narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them
at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The
intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant
struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of
the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this
world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard
as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only
escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps
upon them.

What does this line tell you about men in the last years of the nineteenth century?

With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe
about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire
over matter.
(4 points)

2.

(LC)

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells [1898]


But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be

inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the

World?…And how are all things made for man?—

KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth
century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as
men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised
and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope
might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a
drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this
globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their
empire over matter. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space
as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea
of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall
some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial
men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to
themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.
Yet
across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to
those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and
unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and
surely drew their plans against us
. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,
up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that
intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,
beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since
Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial
area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not
only more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has
already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is
still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial
region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest
winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have
shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow
seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and
periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of
exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a
present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure
of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and
hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and
intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its
nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning
star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with
water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses
through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country
and narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them
at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The
intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant
struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of
the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this
world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard
as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only
escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps
upon them.

What does this line tell you about the relationship between humans and the aliens?

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours
are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and
unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and
surely drew their plans against us.
(4 points)

Humans are searching for the aliens.

The aliens are disinterested in humans.

Humans are friends with the aliens.

The aliens are more intelligent than humans.

3.

(MC)

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells [1898]


But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be

inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the

World?…And how are all things made for man?—

KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth
century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as
men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised
and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope
might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a
drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this
globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their
empire over matter. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space
as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea
of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall
some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial
men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to
themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the
gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the
beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded
this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans
against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great
disillusionment.

Which of these statements best describes humans as they are depicted in paragraph one of this excerpt? (4 points)

They are known for working hard.

They consider themselves superior.

They are kind and generous.

They love to feel helpful.

4.

(MC)

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells [1898]


But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be

inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the

World?…And how are all things made for man?—

KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the
nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely
by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that
as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were
scrutinised and studied
, perhaps almost as narrowly as a
man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that
swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men
went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in
their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the
infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the
older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them
only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable.
It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed
days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon
Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary
enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as
ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool
and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and
surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century
came the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,
up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that
intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,
beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since
Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial
area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not
only more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has
already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is
still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial
region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest
winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have
shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow
seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and
periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of
exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a
present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure
of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and
hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and
intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its
nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning
star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with
water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses
through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country
and narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them
at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The
intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant
struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of
the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this
world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard
as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only
escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps
upon them.

Read this line from The War of the Worlds:

That as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied

What does this line imply about humans? (4 points)

They had little reason to feel anger at what happened.

They had active and fulfilling lives.

They ignored multiple signs of impending danger.

They did not realize they were being watched.

5.

(MC)

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells [1898]


But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be

inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the

World?…And how are all things made for man?—

KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth
century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as
men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised
and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope
might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a
drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this
globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their
empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the
microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of
space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the
idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to
recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most
terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps
inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet
across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to
those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and
unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and
surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century
came the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,
up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that
intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,
beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since
Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial
area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not
only more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has
already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is
still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial
region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest
winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have
shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow
seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and
periodically inundate its temperate zones.
That last
stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a
present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars
. The
immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects,
enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. And looking across
space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely
dreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles
sunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, green
with vegetation and grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent
of fertility, with glimpses through its drifting cloud wisps of broad
stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them
at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The
intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant
struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of
the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this
world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard
as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only
escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps
upon them.

Read this line from The War of the Worlds:

That last stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly
remote, has become a present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars…

What does the last stage of exhaustion imply about Mars? (4 points)

The inhabitants have little physical strength left.

The inhabitants of Mars have become ancient.

The planet has moved farther away from the Sun.

The planet is nearing its last days.

6.

(LC)

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells [1898]


But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be

inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the

World?…And how are all things made for man?—

KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth
century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as
men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised
and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope
might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a
drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this
globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their
empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the
microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of
space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the
idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to
recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most
terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps
inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet
across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to
those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and
unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and
surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century
came the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,
up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that
intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,
beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since
Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial
area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not
only more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has
already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is
still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial
region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest
winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have
shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow
seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and
periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of
exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a
present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure
of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and
hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and
intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its
nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning
star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with
water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses
through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country
and narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them
at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The
intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant
struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of
the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this
world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard
as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only
escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps
upon them.

In three to five complete sentences, describe how
the inhabitants of Mars felt about humans on earth. Use evidence from
the text to support your answer. (10 points)

7.

(MC)

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells [1898]


But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be

inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the

World?…And how are all things made for man?—

KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth
century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as
men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised
and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope
might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a
drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this
globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their
empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the
microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of
space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the
idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to
recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most
terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps
inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet
across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to
those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and
unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and
surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century
came the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,
up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that
intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,
beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since
Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial
area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not
only more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has
already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is
still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial
region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest
winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have
shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow
seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and
periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of
exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a
present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure
of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and
hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and
intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its
nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning
star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with
water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses
through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country
and narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them
at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The
intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant
struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of
the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this
world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard
as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only
escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps
upon them.

What key idea does the text below suggest?

Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we know
now that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature barely
approaches that of our coldest winter.
(4 points)

Despite gaps in our knowledge, we do know the planet is cooling.

In the middle of the day, it is cooler than it should be.

Regions of the planet are cooler than many others on Earth.

The conditions on the planet are still unknown.

8.

(MC)

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells [1898]


But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be

inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the

World?…And how are all things made for man?—

KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth
century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as
men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised
and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope
might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a
drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this
globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their
empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the
microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of
space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the
idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to
recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most
terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps
inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet
across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to
those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and
unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and
surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century
came the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,
up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that
intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,
beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since
Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial
area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not
only more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has
already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is
still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial
region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest
winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have
shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow
seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and
periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of
exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a
present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure
of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and
hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and
intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its
nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning
star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with
water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses
through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country
and narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them
at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The
intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant
struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of
the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this
world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard
as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only
escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps
upon them.

Read this line from the text:

With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe
about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire
over matter.

What idea do the words little and serene suggest in this text? (4 points)

The idea that humans crave challenges and activity

The idea that human size was insignificant to that of Martians

The idea that humans were insignificant and oblivious

The idea that humans were obsessed with small things

9.

(MC)

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells [1898]


But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be

inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the

World?…And how are all things made for man?—

KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth
century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as
men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised
and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope
might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a
drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this
globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their
empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the
microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of
space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the
idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to
recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most
terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps
inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet
across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to
those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and
unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and
surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century
came the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,
up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that
intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,
beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since
Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial
area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not
only more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has
already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is
still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial
region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest
winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have
shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow
seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and
periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of
exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a
present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure
of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and
hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and
intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its
nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning
star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with
water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses
through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country
and narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them
at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The
intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant
struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of
the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this
world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard
as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only
escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps
upon them.

Read this line from the text:

Perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might
scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of
water.

What idea does the word transient suggest in this text? (4 points)

Humans are as temporary as insects that live only a few days.

Human behavior is much like that of insects.

Like insects, humans have not spent ample time securing their future.

Unlike insects, humans need water to survive their harsh environment.

10.

(MC)

Franklin Roosevelt’s “State of the Union Address, 1941,” excerpt

(…) For there is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a
healthy and strong democracy. The basic things expected by our people of
their political and economic systems are simple. They are:

Equality of opportunity for youth and for others.

Jobs for those who can work.

Security for those who need it.

The ending of special privilege for the few

The preservation of civil liberties for all.

The enjoyment of the fruits of scientific progress in a wider and constantly rising standard of living.

These are the simple, basic things that must never be lost sight
of in the turmoil and unbelievable complexity of our modern world. The
inner and abiding strength of our economic and political systems is
dependent upon the degree to which they fulfill these expectations.

Many subjects connected with our social economy call for immediate improvement. As examples:

We should bring more citizens under the coverage of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.

We should widen the opportunities for adequate medical care.

We should plan a better system by which persons deserving or needing gainful employment may obtain it.

I have called for personal sacrifice. I am assured of the willingness of almost all Americans to respond to that call.

A part of the sacrifice means the payment of more money in taxes.
In my Budget Message I shall recommend that a greater portion of this
great defense program be paid for from taxation than we are paying
today. No person should try, or be allowed, to get rich out of this
program; and the principle of tax payments in accordance with ability to
pay should be constantly before our eyes to guide our legislation.

If the Congress maintains these principles, the voters, putting patriotism ahead of pocketbooks, will give you their applause.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings

which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of

armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to

commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis
for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That
kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of
tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

To that new order we oppose the greater conception—the moral order. A
good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign
revolutions alike without fear.

Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged
in change—in a perpetual peaceful revolution—a revolution which goes on
steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions—without the
concentration camp or the quick—lime in the ditch. The world order which
we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a
friendly, civilized society.

This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and
hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom
under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights
everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights
or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose.

To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

Which of the following best describes the purpose of higher taxes, according to Roosevelt? (4 points)

To ensure military victory and elimination of tyranny

To fund the changes necessary to improve the issues of social economy

To fund the changes necessary to make scientific advancements

To keep anyone from becoming rich from societal change

11.

(MC)

Franklin Roosevelt’s “State of the Union Address, 1941,” excerpt

(…) For there is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a
healthy and strong democracy. The basic things expected by our people of
their political and economic systems are simple. They are:

Equality of opportunity for youth and for others.

Jobs for those who can work.

Security for those who need it.

The ending of special privilege for the few

The preservation of civil liberties for all.

The enjoyment of the fruits of scientific progress in a wider and constantly rising standard of living.

These are the simple, basic things that must never be lost sight
of in the turmoil and unbelievable complexity of our modern world. The
inner and abiding strength of our economic and political systems is
dependent upon the degree to which they fulfill these expectations.

Many subjects connected with our social economy call for immediate improvement. As examples:

We should bring more citizens under the coverage of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.

We should widen the opportunities for adequate medical care.

We should plan a better system by which persons deserving or needing gainful employment may obtain it.

I have called for personal sacrifice. I am assured of the willingness of almost all Americans to respond to that call.

A part of the sacrifice means the payment of more money in taxes.
In my Budget Message I shall recommend that a greater portion of this
great defense program be paid for from taxation than we are paying
today. No person should try, or be allowed, to get rich out of this
program; and the principle of tax payments in accordance with ability to
pay should be constantly before our eyes to guide our legislation.

If the Congress maintains these principles, the voters, putting patriotism ahead of pocketbooks, will give you their applause.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings

which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of

armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to

commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis
for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That
kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of
tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

To that new order we oppose the greater conception—the moral order. A
good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign
revolutions alike without fear.

Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged
in change—in a perpetual peaceful revolution—a revolution which goes on
steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions—without the
concentration camp or the quick—lime in the ditch. The world order which
we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a
friendly, civilized society.

This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and
hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom
under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights
everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights
or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose.

To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

Roosevelt lists four essential human freedoms in his speech and asserts that these freedoms constitute the moral order and help create and maintain a good society.

According to his speech, what will this “good society” be able to defend itself against? (4 points)

The need for higher taxes and further sacrifices

The need for military and defense programs

Schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions

The vision of a distant and hostile millennium

12.

(MC)

Franklin Roosevelt’s “State of the Union Address, 1941,” excerpt

(…) For there is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a
healthy and strong democracy. The basic things expected by our people of
their political and economic systems are simple. They are:

Equality of opportunity for youth and for others.

Jobs for those who can work.

Security for those who need it.

The ending of special privilege for the few

The preservation of civil liberties for all.

The enjoyment of the fruits of scientific progress in a wider and constantly rising standard of living.

These are the simple, basic things that must never be lost sight
of in the turmoil and unbelievable complexity of our modern world. The
inner and abiding strength of our economic and political systems is
dependent upon the degree to which they fulfill these expectations.

Many subjects connected with our social economy call for immediate improvement. As examples:

We should bring more citizens under the coverage of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.

We should widen the opportunities for adequate medical care.

We should plan a better system by which persons deserving or needing gainful employment may obtain it.

I have called for personal sacrifice. I am assured of the willingness of almost all Americans to respond to that call.

A part of the sacrifice means the payment of more money in taxes.
In my Budget Message I shall recommend that a greater portion of this
great defense program be paid for from taxation than we are paying
today. No person should try, or be allowed, to get rich out of this
program; and the principle of tax payments in accordance with ability to
pay should be constantly before our eyes to guide our legislation.

If the Congress maintains these principles, the voters, putting patriotism ahead of pocketbooks, will give you their applause.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings

which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of

armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to

commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis
for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That
kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of
tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

To that new order we oppose the greater conception—the moral order. A
good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign
revolutions alike without fear

Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged
in change—in a perpetual peaceful revolution—a revolution which goes on
steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions—without the
concentration camp or the quick—lime in the ditch. The world order which
we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a
friendly, civilized society.

This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and
hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom
under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights
everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights
or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose.

To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

In his speech, Roosevelt states the following:

If the Congress maintains these principles, the voters, putting patriotism ahead of pocketbooks, will give you their applause.

In this passage, who does “you” refer to? (4 points)

Congress

Roosevelt

The unemployed

Voters

13.

(LC)

What type of sentence is this?

Leslie wants to play the piano. (4 points)

Compound

Simple

Complex

Compound-complex

14.

(LC)

What type of sentence is this?

Andrew needs to study for a make-up test, but Carlos already passed his test. (4 points)

Simple

Compound

Complex

Compound-complex

15.

(LC)

Which sentence sets a humorous tone? (4 points)

It would be easier to look forward to the party if we didn’t have all this work to do.

The work we have to do before the party is a real drag on my good attitude.

I need to do work before a party like my little sister needs another boy band poster.

We have much to do before we can begin to think about going to the party.

16.

(MC)

Which of these statements has the most formal tone? (4 points)

Thanks for coming to our party. We all had a great time.

It was an awesome party. Thanks for coming, man.

Thank you for joining us at the end of the year celebration. A fabulous time was had by all.

The end of the year blow-out was a great party. Glad you could make it.

17.

(MC)

Which of these statements has the most formal tone? (4 points)

Great costume! I didn’t know that was you.

Your ensemble for the costume party was so well designed that I did not recognize you.

Nice work on your costume. It’s a great disguise.

I didn’t know that was you. Your costume is the best one at the party.

18.

(MC)

A student wrote the following sentence:

Because Hester refuses to leave Salem after her public trial, she clearly has issues.
Her choice to live out her punishment rather than escape it shows both
strength of character and a deep belief in the idea of atonement.

Which replacement word would best clarify the meaning of “issues”? (4 points)

Anxieties

Fears

Guilt

Terrors

19.

(MC)

A student wrote the following sentence:

In conclusion, both Hester and Dimmesdale made a foolish choice
to stay in Salem. Their suffering is unnecessary and could have been
easily alleviated by simply traveling to another town and assuming new
identities.

What assumption in this sentence makes the meaning subjective rather than objective? (4 points)

Hester and Dimmesdale could have moved.

Hester and Dimmesdale made a foolish choice.

Hester and Dimmesdale stayed in Salem.

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