The following passages and questions are reprinted from earlier editions of the text and the test booklets. Working through each carefully will give you excellent practice to prepare for either a midterm or a final examination, depending on your instructor's course schedule. The skills they represent are a composite of those taken up in Parts I and II, Chapter 1 - 7. Good luck!

(1) To most strangers they [the Los Angeles freeways] suggest chaos, or at least purgatory, and there can certainly be more soothing notices than the one on the Santa Ana Freeway which announces MERGING BUSES AHEAD. (2) There comes a moment, though, when something clicks in one's own mechanism, and suddenly one grasps the rhythm of the freeway system, masters its tribal or ritual forms, and discovers it to be not a disruptive element at all, but a kind of computer key to the use of Los Angeles. (3) One is processed by the freeways. (4) Elevated as they generally are above the flat and centerless expanse of the city, they provide a navigational aid, into which one locks oneself for guidance. (5) Everything is clearer then. (6) There are the mountains, to the north and east. (7) There is the glimmering ocean. (8) The civic landmarks of L.A., such as they are, display themselves conveniently for you. (9) The pattern of the place unfolds until, properly briefed by the experience, the time comes for you to unlock from the system, undo your safety belt, and take the right-hand lane into the everyday life below.

--Jan Morris, "The Know-How City"

1			The dictionary lists three definitions for "purgatory" (sentence 1). Which is the appropriate one for this context?
			A)	in certain Christian doctrines, a temporary state in which the souls of those who have died in grace must expiate their sins
			B)	a place or condition of suffering
			C)	a place after death for expiating one's sins
2			Apparently, the author found the sign on the Santa Ana Freeway, MERGING BUSES AHEAD, to be
			A)	soothing
			B)	unexplainable
			C)	informative
			D)	scary
3			The method of paragraph development in sentences 2 - 4 is
			A)	example
			B)	classification
			C)	steps in a process
			D)	analogy
			E)	cause-effect
4			Which pattern of organization is implied in sentences 4 - 8?
			A)	chronological
			B)	deductive
			C)	inductive
			D)	spatial