ATI TEAS 7 Test 2022 Correct Answers
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Reading
Questions 1-6 are based upon the following passage:
This excerpt is an
... [Show More] adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travelsinto
Several Remote Nations of the World.
My gentleness and good behaviour had gained so far on the emperorand
his court, and indeed upon the army and people in general, that I began to
conceive hopes of getting my liberty in a short time. I tookall possible
methods to cultivate this favourable disposition. The natives came, by
degrees, to be less apprehensive of any danger from me. I would
sometimes lie down, and let five or six of them dance on my hand; and at
last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide-and-seek
in my hair. I had now made a good progress in understanding and
speaking the language. The emperor had a mind one day to entertain me
with several of the country shows, wherein they exceed all nations I have
known, both for dexterity and magnificence. I was diverted with none so
much as that of the rope-dancers, performed upon a slender white thread,
extended about two feet, and twelve inches from the ground. Upon which I
shall desire liberty, with the reader’s patience, to enlarge a little.
This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for
great employments, and high favour at court. They are trained in this art
from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education.
When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often
happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain
his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps
the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office. Very often the chief
ministers
themselves are commanded to show their skill, and to convince the
emperor that they have not lost their faculty. Flimnap, the treasurer,is
allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than
any other lord in the whole empire. I have seen him do the summerset
several times together, upon a trencher fixed on a rope which is no
thicker than a common packthread in England. My friend Reldresal,
principal secretary for private affairs, is, in my opinion, if I am not partial,
the second after the
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treasurer; the rest of the great officers are much upon a par.
1. Which of the following statements best summarize the central
purpose of this text?
a. Gulliver details his fondness for the archaic yet interesting
practices of his captors.
b. Gulliver conjectures about the intentions of the aristocratic sectorof
society.
c. Gulliver becomes acquainted with the people and practices of hisnew
surroundings.
d. Gulliver’s differences cause him to become penitent around new
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