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| 1 | "Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted |
 | A) | It is important to strive for success. |
| B) | You should plant crops where you plan to harvest them. |
| C) | It is wrong to work hard for success. |
| D) | To be successful, you must first work hard. |
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| 2 | "Opportunity makes thieves." —European saying |
| A) | People steal at every opportunity. |
| B) | People who might not otherwise steal may do so if circumstances make it easy to take something. |
| C) | Some people never have opportunity to become a thief. |
| D) | Don't leave valuable possessions lying around. |
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| 3 | "'Tis with our judgments as our watches: none go just alike, yet each believes his own." |
| A) | We all have different opinions, and each of us thinks ours is correct. |
| B) | We need to watch the judgments we make. |
| C) | We should not believe other people's opinions. |
| D) | We should not make judgments about other people because over time, people can change. |
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| 4 | "Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live."
| —Holmes Rolston III, professor of philosophy (1932- ) |
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| A) | It is just as wrong to destroy a species as it is to tear pages out of a book, especially a book written in another language. |
| B) | Humans should not tear pages out of any book that is written in a language they do not understand. |
| C) | When humans destroy a species, they and future generations lose forever the opportunity to learn something about the very earth on which they live. |
| D) | Humans should record in a book the species they destroy. |
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| 5 | "Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." —Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957) |
| A) | It is helpful in life to be able to speak a second language, even though speakers will undoubtedly mispronounce some words. |
| B) | Everyone will mispronounce the words of a foreign language. |
| C) | No one knows how to live life perfectly, and every person makes mistakes in living their lives. |
| D) | Because everyone mispronounces some words of a foreign language, there is no reason to try to learn another language. |
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| 6 | "True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess." —Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-1994) |
| A) | How we conduct our lives, and not what we say we believe, reflects our true religious beliefs. |
| B) | Each person must find a religion that is truly appropriate for him or her. |
| C) | To be truly religious, we should learn the creeds that our religion professes. |
| D) | It is important to learn a religious creed and to act accordingly. |
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| 7 | "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
| —Vernon Law, Pirates pitcher |
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| A) | It's a helpful experience to have a hard teacher. |
| B) | Experienced teachers give the lesson first and then the test. |
| C) | Everyone has the experience of making mistakes both in school and in life. |
| D) | Experience can be a difficult way to learn because you learn from making mistakes. |
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| 8 | "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." —John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968) |
| A) | It's a good idea to have at least a dozen rabbits. |
| B) | Once ideas start coming to you, you have lots of more of them. |
| C) | Unless you have an idea of how to handle rabbits, you will end up with lots of them. |
| D) | No one knows how many ideas or rabbits they will end up with after getting the first one. |
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| 9 | "The best university of all is a collection of books." —Thomas Carlysle |
| A) | All universities should have a large book collection. |
| B) | Reading books can provide a person with an excellent education. |
| C) | A university can be judged by the size of its book collection. |
| D) | People who want to attend a university should first read a large collection of books. |