Select Relevant/Sufficient Evidence: Fiction/Drama Practice Test
•15 QuestionsRead the excerpt from a drama and answer the question.
Small-town library. Afternoon. A poster reads “LOCAL HISTORY DAY.” ELLIS is arranging photographs; RUTH enters holding a folded newspaper.
RUTH: They printed it.
ELLIS: The correction?
RUTH: No. The lie again, but in a new font.
ELLIS: (without looking up) Fonts don’t change facts.
RUTH: People don’t read facts. They read what fits.
ELLIS: Then let it pass.
RUTH: You always say that—as if silence is a broom.
ELLIS: It keeps the dust from rising.
RUTH: It keeps it from being seen.
ELLIS: (finally looks at her) I’m tired of fighting a town that loves its stories more than its neighbors.
RUTH: And I’m tired of watching you fold yourself smaller so they can keep theirs.
Which choice best supports the claim that Ellis’s passivity is motivated by exhaustion and resignation rather than indifference?
Read the excerpt from a drama and answer the question.
Small-town library. Afternoon. A poster reads “LOCAL HISTORY DAY.” ELLIS is arranging photographs; RUTH enters holding a folded newspaper.
RUTH: They printed it.
ELLIS: The correction?
RUTH: No. The lie again, but in a new font.
ELLIS: (without looking up) Fonts don’t change facts.
RUTH: People don’t read facts. They read what fits.
ELLIS: Then let it pass.
RUTH: You always say that—as if silence is a broom.
ELLIS: It keeps the dust from rising.
RUTH: It keeps it from being seen.
ELLIS: (finally looks at her) I’m tired of fighting a town that loves its stories more than its neighbors.
RUTH: And I’m tired of watching you fold yourself smaller so they can keep theirs.
Which choice best supports the claim that Ellis’s passivity is motivated by exhaustion and resignation rather than indifference?