2009 Released test B: 55 q.
- “Patty’s Charcoal Drive-in” by Barbara Crooker
- "Hunger" from Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities
- “The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop
- “The fresh harrow-lines seemed to stretch like the channellings...” from Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure
- “To an Inconstant One” by Sir Robert Ayton. 1570–1638
Extra 2009
Skip (part repeat from ’82)
Practice A: 46 q.
“Certainly the religious and moral ideas of the Dodsons and Tullivers...” from George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss
“Advice to a Prophet” already done in 1982...1959 by Richard Wilbur
“What had been wanted was this always, this always to last, the talking softly on
the porch, with the snake plant in the jarderiere...” Gwendolyn Brooks
“The Eolian Harp” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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2008 Released test: 55 q
- “To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of zenith...” from Sinclair Lewis’ novel Babbitt
- “To Autumn” by John Keats
- “The name ‘New York’ glittered in front of her like the silver in the shops...” from Gwendolyn Brooks' only novel Maud Martha
- “Read history: so learn your place in Time” by Norma Millay Ellis (1954)
- “There are not many people—and as it is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should a mutual understanding...” from Charles Dickens' novelette The Chimes (a goblin story)
2006 Released practice: 46 q
- “Mr. Jones, of whose personal accomplishments we have hitherto...” from Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
- “Sestina” by Elizabeth Bishop
- “Of late years an abundant shower of curates have fallen upon the North of England...” From Charlotte Brontë's Shirley.
- “The Habit of Perfection” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- "Suppose that people live forever": Alan Lightman, 1993.
- "The old books": George Eliot, 1860.
- "The Albuquerque Graveyard": Jay Wright, 1987.
- "Criticism is a study by which men grow important": Samuel Johnson, 1759.
1999 Test: 55 q.
- “CYRIL. (Coming in through the open window from the terrace)” from Oscar Wilde's The Decay of Living
- “I dreaded that first Robin, so” by Emily Dickinson
- “VOLPONE: Good morning to the day; and next, my gold” from Ben Jonson's Volpone
- “Facing It” Yusef Komunyakaa (1988)
- “Louisa heard an exclamation and a soft commotion...” from Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's A New England Nun
1994 Test:
55 q.
- “The Sunday morning service began when Brother Elisha sat down...”
- “My Picture” by Abraham Crowley
- “If mere parsimony would have made a rich man, Sir Pitt Crawley might have become very wealthy...”
- “A Whippoorwill in the Woods”, 1990 by Amy Clampitt
1991 Test:
55 q.
- “The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus...”
- “I have been studying how I may compare/This prison where I live unto the world” from Shakespeare; Richard deposed and imprisoned by Bolingbroke
- “Lady with a Falcon” 1978 by May Sarton
- “The mountain paths stoop to these glens in forky zigzags”
- “A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body” by Andrew Marvell
- “If the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind....” from T.S. Eliot's, Tradition and the Individual Talent (1921)
- “Advice to a Prophet” by Richard Wilbur (1959)
- “I sometimes dream of a larger and more populous house, standing in a golden age...” from Henry David Thoreau's Walden
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