The following text is adapted from Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises. The narrator is on a fishing trip at a waterfall. I did not feel the first trout strike. When I started to pull up I felt that I had one and brought him, fighting and bending the rod almost double, out of the boiling water at the foot of the falls, and swung him up and onto the dam. He was a good trout, and I banged his head against the timber so that he quivered out straight, and then slipped him into my bag. While I had him on, several trout had jumped at the falls. As soon as I baited up and dropped in again I hooked another and brought him in the same way. In a little while I had six. They were all about the same size. I laid them out, side by side, all their heads pointing the same way, and looked at them. They were beautifully colored and firm and hard from the cold water.Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole? It offers an ironic depiction of the narrator’s lack of fishing skill.eliminateIt produces an impression of the passage of time.eliminateIt provides context for why the narrator is fishing.eliminateIt clarifies the narrator’s expectations.

Select the best detail to show the sight of Little Joe's trout makes Buster Bear hungry.Now it just happened that early as he was, someone was before Buster Bear. When he came in sight of the little pool, who should he see but another fisherman there, who had already caught a fine fat trout. Who was it? Why, Little Joe Otter to be sure. He was just climbing up the bank with the fat trout in his mouth. Buster Bear's own mouth watered as he saw it. Little Joe sat down on the bank and prepared to enjoy his breakfast.From Thornton W. Burgess, The Adventures of Buster Bear. C

Select the correct text in the passage.Which detail best shows the idea that the father enjoyed growing up in Clarksburg?(9) The biggest fish I ever saw caught I did not catch. Brother Henry, who was nine years older than I, caught it. It was a cat-fish, and Henry and a boy named Billy James, who was less than six feet tall, ran a pole through the fish's gills and carried the fish between them suspended from the pole which was rested upon the boys shoulders, and the fish was so long that its tail tipped the ground as the boys walked. Now, this is the biggest fish story I ever tell, except the Jonah story, and I believe both.(10) We liked Clarksburg because it was a good place for schools, Sunday Schools and churches. I hardly remember the time when I was not in school, Sunday School and church. I think to this day these are good places for boys to be.(11) My parents were always anxious to have their children in school and made many sacrifices to this end; as a result their five boys all were public school teachers before they were out of their teens.

Hemingway's depressive tone may be expressed through what element of The Old Man and the Sea? aThe way the fisherman perseveres despite obstacles. bThe fisherman's thoughts about missing the boy. cThe name of the boat the fisherman sails in dThe terse, matter-of-fact language

Despite being exhausted as he continues to hang onto the big fish he has hooked, in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, what does Santiago think about to stay focused? aBaseball bHow he wishes he had brought more food cHis impending doom dThat he will lose the fish and no one will believe he hooked it

Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald became close friends as they wrote in the cafes and bars of Paris in the 1920’s, when the city became a center for culture and the arts. Fitzgerald helped edit portions of Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, but Hemingway only returned the favor by calling Fitzgerald a coward. Hemingway also openly accused Fitzgerald of being a ------- and more talented writer than Hemingway was.Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase? less authenticeliminateadmirable eliminatehighly sought after eliminatewidely regarded eliminate