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Read the passage from "Two Kinds.”I had assumed that my talent-show fiasco meant I never had to play the piano again. But two days later, after school, my mother came out of the kitchen and saw me watching TV."Four clock,” she reminded me as if it were any other day. I was stunned, as though she were asking me to go through the talent-show torture again. I wedged myself more tightly in front of the TV."Turn off TV,” she called from the kitchen five minutes later.I didn’t budge. And then I decided. I didn’t have to do what mother said anymore. I wasn’t her slave. This wasn’t China. I had listened to her before and look what happened. She was the stupid one.She came out from the kitchen and stood in the arched entryway of the living room. "Four clock,” she said once again, louder."I’m not going to play anymore,” I said nonchalantly. "Why should I? I’m not a genius.”She walked over and stood in front of the TV. I saw her chest was heaving up and down in an angry way."No!” I said, and I now felt stronger, as if my true self had finally emerged. So this was what had been inside me all along."No! I won’t!” I screamed.

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character vs. self
B
character vs. nature
C
character vs. society
D
character vs. character
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Read the line from Robert Hayden’s poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” then look at the painting Water Lilies by Claude Monet.O light beheld as through refracting tears.

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It points out that the artwork addresses a sad topic.
B
It explains the importance of light to supporting life.
C
It compares the painting to an emotional experience.
D
It suggests that the scene was painted at night.
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Which lines from the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove provide an example of alliteration?

A
“among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant, / who painted herself a present–”
B
“wildflowers entwining the plaster corset / her spine resides in, that flaming pillar–”
C
“Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead. / And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting”
D
“Diego’s / love a skull in the circular window / of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.”
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Which conflicts are revealed in the passage? Select two options.

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an internal conflict within the narrator, who is frightened by the extremity of her anger at her mother
B
an external conflict between the narrator, who is demanding independence, and her mother, who is demanding obedience
C
an external conflict between the narrator and her mother over whether or not the narrator will continue to live at home
D
an internal conflict within the narrator’s mother, who cannot decide whether to throw her daughter out of the family home
E
an external conflict between the narrator, who wants to be the kind of daughter her mother wants, and her mother, who thinks that’s impossible
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Which statements are true of external conflicts? Select three options.They propel the plot of a story.They release tensions in a story.They take place between two characters in a story.They happen when a character is at odds with society.They occur when characters feel uncertain about what they want.

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They propel the plot of a story.
B
They release tensions in a story.
C
They take place between two characters in a story.
D
They happen when a character is at odds with society.
E
They occur when characters feel uncertain about what they want.

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