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) The young soldier was one of many on the train. (2) With their tasseled caps set at snappy angles, they hung about in the corridors smoking sweet black cigarettes and laughing confidentially. (3) They seemed to be enjoying themselves, which apparently was wrong of them, for whenever an officer appeared the soldiers would stare fixedly out of the windows, as though enraptured by the landslides of red rock, the olive fields and stern stone mountains. (4) Their officers were dressed for a parade, many ribbons, much brass; and some wore gleaming, improbable swords strapped to their sides. (5) They did not mix with the soldiers, but sat together in a first-class compartment, looking bored and rather like unemployed actors. . . .

(6) The compartment directly ahead was taken over by one family: a delicate, attenuated, exceptionally elegant man with a mourning ribbon sewn around his sleeve, and traveling with him, six thin, summery girls, presumably his daughters. (7) They were beautiful, the father and his children, all of them, and in the same way: hair that had a dark shine, lips the color of pimientos, eyes like sherry. (8) The soldiers would glance into their compartment, then look away. (9) It was as if they had seen straight into the sun.

--Truman Capote, "A Ride Through Spain"

1			The mode of discourse in this passage is
			A)	narration
			B)	description
			C)	exposition
			D)	persuasion
2			Paragraph 1 suggests that the young soldiers were supposed to act
			A)	jovial
			B)	respectful
			C)	serious
			D)	bored
3			In sentence 5, Capote compares the officers to unemployed actors, by which he means to emphasize that
			A)	they were only pretending to be officers
			B)	they were rehearsing for a play
			C)	they were enjoying their train ride through the countryside
			D)	despite their elaborate uniforms, they had nothing to do
4			In sentence 6, the writer uses the adjective "summery" to describe the man's six daughters. How would you label this word?
			A)	denotative
			B)	connotative with positive overtones
			C)	connotative with negative overtones
			D)	euphemistic
5			In sentence 7, when the writer compares the father's and daughters' lips to pimientos and their eyes to sherry, he is referring to their
			A)	texture
			B)	shape
			C)	taste
			D)	color
6			Throughout the passage, Capote emphasizes details that appeal to the reader's sense of
			A)	smell
			B)	sight
			C)	touch
			D)	taste
			E)	hearing