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Test: Common Core: 8th Grade English Language Arts
Adapted from “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” in Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1865; 1900)
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
1. | Which of the following excerpts serves as the strongest evidence that the astronomer is using math to study the stars? |
“where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room” (Line 4)
"When I was shown the charts and diagrams" (Line 3)
“How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick” (Line 5)
“were ranged in columns before me” (Line 2)
“to add, divide, and measure them” (Line 3)
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