During the day now, Joshua drives the wagon with Mother next to him, while Father rides his stallion and Micah and I walk beside the wagon. I told you before we left Missouri that we kept back the one fine horse—the black Andalusian you admired—from the sale of the farm animals, even though the trail guide advised against bringing him. You know the stallion is Father's breeding horse, and he will want to raise horses along with sheep when we get to Oregon.
From several weeks in a stable before our journey began, the stallion became quite ,begin underline,corpulent,end underline, without exercise; however, in the month of steady travel, carrying Father, he has reduced his bulk. Now, he daily increases in strength, stamina, and energy, and the unpredictable disposition he used to show has modified enough that the children are not afraid to approach him as they used to be.
Father loves riding him and talks often of the advantage his spirited lineage will allow in developing a breed fitted to the new country.
Question
When Tara first read this excerpt from a fictional letter, she thought the word ,begin emphasis,corpulent,end emphasis, meant "unhealthy."
Is Tara's understanding about the meaning of ,begin emphasis,corpulent,end emphasis, correct?
Answer options with 4 options
1.
Yes, because the horse was "without exercise," indicating that he was unhealthy due to a poor diet.
2.
No, because the horse "reduced his bulk" after steady travel, suggesting that the word means "heavy."
3.
No, because the horse used to show an "unpredictable disposition," implying that the word means "hot-tempered."
4.
Yes, because the horse increased his "strength, stamina, and energy," inferring that he was unhealthy due to an illnes
2. No, because the horse "reduced his bulk" after steady travel, suggesting that the word means "heavy."
Lydia Sanderson is homesteading in Oregon in the 1890s. Tim Whiteaker, whose marriage proposal Lydia has recently declined, pays a visit. ,end italics,
from ,begin bold,The Jump-Off Creek,end bold,
paragraph 1,On the Sunday after the Fourth of July, he came riding out of the trees at the high end of the clearing and after a moment lifted his hand stiffly. She was burying garbage in the yard. She kept on digging, only waving at him briefly, and resolutely smiling.
paragraph 2,"Mrs. Sanderson," he said when he had come up near the hole she was digging. He stayed on his gray horse and looked down at her.
paragraph 3,"Hello, Mr. Whiteaker."
paragraph 4,"I'm cooking for a crew over behind Meacham," he said, in a way that was unlike him, quick and direct. "I've got a cash allowance for groceries and I would like to buy milk off you if you have it to sell."
paragraph 5,She looked up from shoveling the garbage into its shallow hole.
paragraph 6,He ducked his chin in that characteristic way, but he kept on quickly, as if he had thought over what he meant to say. "I've been coming home on Saturday night and going back there about this time on Sunday. I would come by for it every week. I guess I would buy a gallon at a time. I would get more but I don't have any good way to haul it."
paragraph 7,She had not got over her surprise yet. She held her hand up over her eyes, shading them from the late sun, and looked at him.
paragraph 8,He nodded as if she had said something he agreed with. Then he said, "I brought a saddlebags, and some newspaper to set the jars in."
paragraph 9,Then finally she nodded too, and stuck the spade down in the garbage hole. She wiped her hands on her apron and left the spade standing up there and went down to the cairn.,superscript,1,baseline, Mr. Whiteaker brought his stiff leather sacks and followed her across the yard, letting his horse loose to crop the thin grass. He stood behind her while she lifted out four quarts.
paragraph 10,"I guess you wouldn't want to sell any of that cheese, or the butter," he said, watching her.
paragraph 11,Without looking around at him, she said, "I would." She set out some of it on the grass behind her.
paragraph 12,He squatted down with his sack and packed everything in carefully. "I'll bring the empty jars back with me next time," he said. "Does that leave you short of them?"
paragraph 13,She said, "No," though probably it would.
paragraph 14,He nodded again and stood up and carried the sacks to his horse. When he had lifted and settled the sacks across the back of his saddle, he stood beside the horse and took a handful of coins out of his pocket and looked at her.
paragraph 15,"Forty-five cents," she said. Without the time to figure her price carefully, she didn't know if it was too little, or too much.
paragraph 16,He reached the money out to her, dropping it into her open hand. He mounted and started to turn the horse and then didn't.
paragraph 17,"Meacham has got a store," he said, looking down at her. And then, unexpectedly," If you wanted anything from there, I could bring it back for you."
paragraph 18,She considered. Then she said, "If they have got a post office, I would be grateful if you would take down a few letters of mine to be posted."
paragraph 19,He nodded.
paragraph 20,She went to the house and got the several letters she had written to her mother and to her aunt. She wrapped them in a piece of newspaper tied with a string, came out again and gave him the little packet, smiling slightly. "Thank you, Mr. Whiteaker. I had thought I wouldn't have this occasion until the fall, when I must go out myself."
paragraph 21,He sat holding her letters gingerly in one hand. The little finger was crooked, not quite lying flat along the edge of the packet of letters. Probably the bone had been broken and poorly set once. Looking at it, she felt a sudden, small, inexplicable pang.
paragraph 22,"Well, we never get letters ourselves," he said in an indifferent fashion. It wasn't clear why he had said it. She could not think what might be expected, by way of a reply.
paragraph 23,She said, after the little silence, "If you have time, Mr. Whiteaker, please come in for coffee."
paragraph 24,He shook his head. "I'll be late getting there as it is." There was an irritable quality about it, and he touched the brim of his hat and turned the horse and rode away without saying anything else.
paragraph 25,After that, he came every Sunday regularly to buy milk from her and to take her letters to the post office. After the first occasion he became more nearly like himself, slow to speak and diffident, but he never would come inside the house and take coffee with her. She was not sorry for that, but bothered by a dim guilt.
paragraph 26,She sent a note with him, to have her own mail forwarded to the Meacham Station from the post office in La Grande, and finally on the second Sunday of August he brought back the letters and parcels that had been waiting.
paragraph 27,Lydia had at one time resolved to open her mail slowly when she got it—one or two each day from earliest to last, as if she had not got them all in a bundle. But that intent was lost as soon as she saw them held out in Mr. Whiteaker's hand.
paragraph 28,She began to smile foolishly. "Oh, Mr. Whiteaker, I am so grateful to you. How many letters are there, it looks like a lot? Please come in, I wish you would. I'll make coffee and we'll see what is in those packages. Are there two of them? You know I haven't been able to post a letter myself, from April to July, I rather worried I'd be forgotten."
paragraph 29,He did follow her in, watching her with a slight, soft smile. "I'll get the coffee made, ma'am, if you are wanting to open those parcels."
(Excerpt from ,begin underline,THE JUMP-OFF CREEK,end underline, by Molly Gloss. Copyright © 1989 by Molly Gloss. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.)
,begin bold,,superscript, ,baseline, ,end bold,,begin bold,,superscript,1,baseline,cairn,end bold, a pile of rocks used for cold storage in the creek
Question 1
This question has two parts. Answer Part A, and then answer Part B.
,begin emphasis,Part A,end emphasis,
In paragraph 6, what does the description "as if he had thought over what he meant to say" reveal about Mr. Whiteaker?
Question 1 Answer options with 4 options
1.
He has prepared for his visit to Lydia with great care.
2.
He plans to impress Lydia with his ability to pay her money.
3.
He wants to be sure Lydia understands the terms of his offer.
4.
He has decided that Lydia can eventually learn to like him better.
Question 2
,begin emphasis,Part B,end emphasis,
Which excerpt from later in the passage ,begin emphasis,best,end emphasis, supports the correct answer from Part A?
Question 2 Answer options with 4 options
1.
"I would get more but I don't have any good way to haul it." (Paragraph 6)
2.
"He nodded as if she had said something he agreed with." (Paragraph 8)
3.
"I brought a saddlebags, and some newspaper to set the jars in." (Paragraph 8)
4.
"He stood behind her while she lifted out four quarts." (Paragraph 9)
Part A: 4. He has decided that Lydia can eventually learn to like him better.
Part B: 2. "He nodded as if she had said something he agreed with." (Paragraph 8)
On the Sunday after the Fourth of July, he came riding out of the trees at the high end of the clearing and after a moment lifted his hand stiffly. She was burying garbage in the yard. She kept on digging, only waving at him briefly, and resolutely smiling.
paragraph 2,"Mrs. Sanderson," he said when he had come up near the hole she was digging. He stayed on his gray horse and looked down at her.
paragraph 3,"Hello, Mr. Whiteaker."
paragraph 4,"I'm cooking for a crew over behind Meacham," he said, in a way that was unlike him, quick and direct. "I've got a cash allowance for groceries and I would like to buy milk off you if you have it to sell."
paragraph 5,She looked up from shoveling the garbage into its shallow hole.
paragraph 6,He ducked his chin in that characteristic way, but he kept on quickly, as if he had thought over what he meant to say. "I've been coming home on Saturday night and going back there about this time on Sunday. I would come by for it every week. I guess I would buy a gallon at a time. I would get more but I don't have any good way to haul it."
paragraph 7,She had not got over her surprise yet. She held her hand up over her eyes, shading them from the late sun, and looked at him.
paragraph 8,He nodded as if she had said something he agreed with. Then he said, "I brought a saddlebags, and some newspaper to set the jars in."
paragraph 9,Then finally she nodded too, and stuck the spade down in the garbage hole. She wiped her hands on her apron and left the spade standing up there and went down to the cairn.,superscript,1,baseline, Mr. Whiteaker brought his stiff leather sacks and followed her across the yard, letting his horse loose to crop the thin grass. He stood behind her while she lifted out four quarts.
paragraph 10,"I guess you wouldn't want to sell any of that cheese, or the butter," he said, watching her.
paragraph 11,Without looking around at him, she said, "I would." She set out some of it on the grass behind her.
paragraph 12,He squatted down with his sack and packed everything in carefully. "I'll bring the empty jars back with me next time," he said. "Does that leave you short of them?"
paragraph 13,She said, "No," though probably it would.
paragraph 14,He nodded again and stood up and carried the sacks to his horse. When he had lifted and settled the sacks across the back of his saddle, he stood beside the horse and took a handful of coins out of his pocket and looked at her.
paragraph 15,"Forty-five cents," she said. Without the time to figure her price carefully, she didn't know if it was too little, or too much.
paragraph 16,He reached the money out to her, dropping it into her open hand. He mounted and started to turn the horse and then didn't.
paragraph 17,"Meacham has got a store," he said, looking down at her. And then, unexpectedly," If you wanted anything from there, I could bring it back for you."
paragraph 18,She considered. Then she said, "If they have got a post office, I would be grateful if you would take down a few letters of mine to be posted."
paragraph 19,He nodded.
paragraph 20,She went to the house and got the several letters she had written to her mother and to her aunt. She wrapped them in a piece of newspaper tied with a string, came out again and gave him the little packet, smiling slightly. "Thank you, Mr. Whiteaker. I had thought I wouldn't have this occasion until the fall, when I must go out myself."
paragraph 21,He sat holding her letters gingerly in one hand. The little finger was crooked, not quite lying flat along the edge of the packet of letters. Probably the bone had been broken and poorly set once. Looking at it, she felt a sudden, small, inexplicable pang.
paragraph 22,"Well, we never get letters ourselves," he said in an indifferent fashion. It wasn't clear why he had said it. She could not think what might be expected, by way of a reply.
paragraph 23,She said, after the little silence, "If you have time, Mr. Whiteaker, please come in for coffee."
paragraph 24,He shook his head. "I'll be late getting there as it is." There was an irritable quality about it, and he touched the brim of his hat and turned the horse and rode away without saying anything else.
paragraph 25,After that, he came every Sunday regularly to buy milk from her and to take her letters to the post office. After the first occasion he became more nearly like himself, slow to speak and diffident, but he never would come inside the house and take coffee with her. She was not sorry for that, but bothered by a dim guilt.
paragraph 26,She sent a note with him, to have her own mail forwarded to the Meacham Station from the post office in La Grande, and finally on the second Sunday of August he brought back the letters and parcels that had been waiting.
paragraph 27,Lydia had at one time resolved to open her mail slowly when she got it—one or two each day from earliest to last, as if she had not got them all in a bundle. But that intent was lost as soon as she saw them held out in Mr. Whiteaker's hand.
paragraph 28,She began to smile foolishly. "Oh, Mr. Whiteaker, I am so grateful to you. How many letters are there, it looks like a lot? Please come in, I wish you would. I'll make coffee and we'll see what is in those packages. Are there two of them? You know I haven't been able to post a letter myself, from April to July, I rather worried I'd be forgotten."
paragraph 29,He did follow her in, watching her with a slight, soft smile. "I'll get the coffee made, ma'am, if you are wanting to open those parcels."
(Excerpt from ,begin underline,THE JUMP-OFF CREEK,end underline, by Molly Gloss. Copyright © 1989 by Molly Gloss. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.)
,begin bold,,superscript, ,baseline, ,end bold,,begin bold,,superscript,1,baseline,cairn,end bold, a pile of rocks used for cold storage in the creek
Question 1
This question has two parts. Answer Part A, and then answer Part B.
,begin emphasis,Part A,end emphasis,
This sentence is from the passage.
"But that ,begin emphasis,intent,end emphasis, was lost as soon as she saw them held out in Mr. Whiteaker's hand." (Paragraph 27)
What does the word ,begin emphasis,intent,end emphasis, mean in this paragraph?
Question 1 Answer options with 4 options
1.
bargain
2.
decision
3.
pleasure
4.
possibility
Question 2
,begin emphasis,Part B,end emphasis,
Which excerpt from paragraph 27 ,begin emphasis,best,end emphasis, supports the correct answer from Part A?
Question 2 Answer options with 4 options
1.
"had at one time resolved"
2.
"to open her mail slowly"
3.
"when she got it"
4.
"one or two each day"
Part A: 1. bargain
Part B: 2. "to open her mail slowly"
2. No, because the horse "reduced his bulk" after steady travel, suggesting that the word means "heavy."
The correct answer is option 2. No, because the horse "reduced his bulk" after steady travel, suggesting that the word means "heavy."
To arrive at the correct answer, it is important to analyze the context provided in the passage. The passage mentions that before the journey, the horse spent several weeks in a stable without exercise and became corpulent. However, during the month of steady travel, the horse reduced his bulk and increased in strength, stamina, and energy. This indicates that the word "corpulent" does not mean unhealthy, but rather refers to the horse's excessive weight or bulkiness. Therefore, Tara's understanding about the meaning of "corpulent" is not correct.