extra selections for M.C.

2004 Released test: 55 q.

  • “Suppose that people live forever...” from Alan Lightman's Einstein’s Dreams (1993)
  • “The old books, Virgil, Euclid, and Aldrich...” from George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss
  • “The Albuquerque Graveyard” by Jay Wright
  • “Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense....” by Samuel Johnson
  • “Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now” by William Shakespeare (Sonnet 90)
   
1994 Test: 55 q.

  • “The Sunday morning service began when Brother Elisha sat down...” from James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain
  • “My Picture” by Abraham Crowley
  • “If mere parsimony would have made a rich man, Sir Pitt Crawley might have become very wealthy...” from William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair 
  • “A Whippoorwill in the Woods” by Amy Clampitt (1990)

1991 Test: 55 q.

  • “The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus...” from Don DiLillo's White Noise
  • “I have been studying how I may compare/This prison where I live unto the world” from Shakespeare; Richard deposed and imprisoned by Bolingbroke.  Richard II, Act V. 
  • “Lady with a Falcon” by May Sarton (1978)
  • “The mountain paths stoop to these glens in forky zigzags” from John Ruskin’s Modern Painters

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