Part A: Select a theme from the passage. Question 4 options:

A)

If you try to fit in with others you will eventually find yourself included.

B)

The circumstances of one’s birth can be difficult to overcome.

C)

Being lazy is the worst thing you can be in life.

D)

People of all walks of life will respect you if you work hard.

Question 5
Part B: Which detail from the passage helps develop the theme in Part A?

Question 5 options:

A)

“That afternoon Clark’s ancient Ford had slowed up beside Jim, who was on the sidewalk and, out of a clear sky, Clark invited him to a party at the country club.”

B)

“‘Jelly-bean’ is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular — I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.”

C)

“When the war was over he came home, He was twenty-one, has trousers were too short and too tight. His buttoned shoes were long and narrow.”

D)

“He had, in fact, thought it a matter of so little moment that when he was dying from a pistol wound got in a brawl he neglected even to tell little Jim, who was five years old and miserably frightened.”