Alberta Diploma Exams · English Language Arts 30-1

Reading and interpreting texts

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  1. Which phrase best describes the tone of the passage?
  2. What does the line "Tomorrow, she thought, was a country she had not planned to visit" suggest?
  3. Why does Marguerite fold her gloves into her coat pocket?
  4. The image of the lake looking "as though nothing had ever crossed it" most strongly emphasizes
  5. What does the clerk's polite cough suggest about him?
  6. In the first stanza, "each stalk a small bow to the wind it knows" is an example of
  7. "counting the weather in our grandfathers' words" suggests that the speakers
  8. Which idea about prairie life is developed through "the sky takes all afternoon to decide on rain"?
  9. "the smell arrives ahead of it, / a promise carried by the dust it will lay down" mainly suggests that
  10. Which description best fits the mood of the last two lines of the poem?
  11. What is the main claim of the paragraph about libraries?
  12. Which device is used in "not hours, but the last public space where staying costs nothing"?
  13. Why does the writer list teenagers, retirees and newcomers?
  14. Which assumption underlies the writer's argument?
  15. The word "trading" in the final sentence frames the budget cut as
  16. What conflict is introduced in the opening lines of the scene?
  17. What does "I kept everything. That was the problem." suggest about Tomas?
  18. The stage direction "(picking one up, not opening it)" reveals that Elena is
  19. Tomas says, "I wrote back every night. I only forgot to post them." This line reveals
  20. Which reading of Tomas's last line is best supported by the whole scene?

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