SHSAT English Language Arts Quiz
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ELA: READING COMPREHENSION
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Excerpt from "Scribe Like an Egyptian" by Hilary Wilson
(5) Scribal education began with the elementary principles of the hieratic script. The lowliest scribes, who trained for just five or six years, probably learned only the rudiments of the hieroglyphic script. Students were set exemplar documents and extracts from popular texts to copy...
The author's use of the term "The lowliest scribes" in paragraph 5 conveys a tone that is
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