Question 1

Which choice best summarizes the passage?

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A young woman's experience of life beings in hope but ends in despair.

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A character regrets a choice but determines to stand by her decision.

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A character reflects that her current job is intolerable and considers why.

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The conflict between a new employee and her supervisor become increasingly bitter.

Question 2

The opening two sentences of the passage primarily serve to

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establish a chronology for the events that follow.

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indicate the narrator's reason for repentance.

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contextualize the narrator's current emotions.

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suggest a foundation for Van Doren's position.

Question 3

Over the course of the passage, the narrator's focus shifts from

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her dissatisfaction with her present position to a resolution that it must change.

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anticipatory delight at making an independent living, to regret at her choice of career.

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a discussion of her work and it's repetitiveness to the discomfort of her home and its loneliness.

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the specifics of the tasks that displease her to the reasons she displeases Van Doren.

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