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Part I Reading Comprehension
Part I Reading Comprehension
Directions: In this part of the exercise you will have 15 passages followed by
questions about the meaning of the material. You are to choose the ONE best
answer, A, B, C, D to each question. Answer all questions following a passage
on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the following passage:
For Emily Dickinson there were three worlds, and she lived in all of them, making
them the substance of everything that she thought and wrote. There was the world
of nature, the things and the creatures that she saw, heard, felt about her; there
was the "estate" that was the world of friendship; and there was the world of the
unseen and unheard. From her youth she was looked upon as different. She was
direct, impulsive, original, and the droll wit who said unconventional things which
others thought but dared not speak, and said them incomparably well. The
characteristics which made her inscrutable to those who knew her continue to
bewilder and surprise, for she lived by paradoxes.
Certainly the greatest paradox was the fact that the three most pervasive friendships
were the most elusive. She saw the Revernd Charles Wadsworth of Philadelphia but
three or four times in the course of her life, and then briefly, yet her admiration of him
as an ideal and her yearning for him as a person were of unsurpassed importance in
her growth as a poet. She sought out for professional advice the critic and publicist
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and invited his aid as mentor for more than twenty
years, though she never once adopted any counsel he dared to hazard. In the last
decade of her life, she came to be a warm admirer of the poet and novelist Helen
Hunt Jackson, the only qualified judge among Emily Dickinson's contemporaries who
believed her to be a great poet, yet Emily Dickinson steadfastly refused to publish
even though Mrs. Jackson's importunity was insistent.
1. What is the author's main purpose in the passage?
a. To provide information about the childhood of Emily Dickinson
b. To discuss some of Emily
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