Practice Test 12 - ACT Reading

20 questions. Answer them in any order, then submit to see your score and every explanation.

  1. The final paragraph suggests that the narrator's ultimate realization about his mother is that:
  2. The primary purpose of the passage is to:
  3. Writer 1: "Homework builds discipline class time can't." Writer 2: "Much homework teaches only how to copy answers fast." Writer 2 most likely:
  4. The reanalysis primarily complicates the original study's claim by suggesting that:
  5. Passage B's reference to thermostats and bacteria (lines 37-41) is best understood as an attempt to:
  6. According to the passage, what specific physical condition allowed the octopuses to build stable dens at Octopolis?
  7. A writer states, "The new bridge didn't just open; it stitched two neighborhoods back together." The word "stitched" mainly serves to:
  8. Which of the following best characterizes the author's stance toward the neighborhood's transformation?
  9. Which of the following best describes the relationship between the two underlined sentences?
  10. As it is used in the passage (bolded), the word testament most nearly means:
  11. Based on the passage, which choice best states its central theme?
  12. Which statement, if true, would most strengthen the author's argument?
  13. As it is used in the passage (underlined), the word capture most nearly means:
  14. The primary function of Paragraph 3 is to:
  15. Which idea would both passages' authors most likely accept as true?
  16. According to Passage B, the act of "framing" a subject is described as:
  17. The narrator's attitude toward Mr. Halloran, as conveyed across the passage, can best be described as:
  18. How would the author of Passage A most likely respond to the claim in Passage B that ornamentation is a 'visual language that connects a building to the culture'?
  19. As it is used in line 3, the word "settle" most nearly means:
  20. The comparison of the reef to "a sprawling city" primarily serves to:

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