Composer Florence Price won first place for her score Symphony in E Minor at the 1932 Wanamaker Foundation Awards. The piece was performed the following year by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a significant recognition of its quality. Price continued to compose many musical pieces throughout her career, blending traditional Black spirituals with classical European Romantic musical traditions. In recent years, Price’s concertos and symphonies have been performed and recorded by several major orchestras, further preserving her work for others to enjoy.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

A) To provide examples of Price’s importance as a composer.

B) To argue that more major orchestras should perform Price’s compositions.

C) To describe the musical styles that inspired many of Price’s symphonies.

D) To compare Price’s scores with those of classical European composers.

The following text is adapted from Oscar Wilde’s 1897 nonfiction work De Profundis. People whose desire is solely for self-realisation never know where they are going. They can’t know. In one sense of the word it is of course necessary to know oneself: that is the first achievement of knowledge. But to recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable, is the ultimate achievement of wisdom. The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star,there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Which choice best describes the function of the underlined question in the text as a whole?

A)It reinforces the text’s skepticism about the possibility of truly achieving self-knowledge.

B) It speculates that some readers will share the doubts expressed in the text about the value of self-knowledge.

C) It cautions readers that the text’s directions for how to achieve self-knowledge are hard to follow.

D) It concedes that the definition of self-knowledge advanced in the text is unpopular.

Historians Tiya Miles and Roy E. Finkenbine have both documented the assistance Indigenous peoples gave to Black freedom seekers leaving the South before the US Civil War. Much of the historical evidence of this help comes from Indigenous oral traditions and from autobiographies written by the freedom seekers. One such narrative is Jermain Loguen’s autobiography, which tells about how Neshnabé (Potawatomi) villagers offered him food, lodging, and directions during his 1835 journey from Tennessee to Canada.

Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence?

A) It provides an example of an autobiography that describes help given by an Indigenous people to a Black freedom seeker.

B) It shows why Loguen decided to write in great detail about his experiences traveling from Tennessee to Canada in his autobiography.

C) It argues that autobiographies are particularly important sources of information about geography in the United States before the Civil War.

D) It suggests that most historians believe that Neshnabé villagers were more successful in assisting freedom seekers than other people were.

Some bird species don’t raise their own chicks. Instead, adult females lay their eggs in other nests, next to another bird species’ own eggs. Female cuckoos have been seen quickly laying eggs in the nests of other bird species when those birds are out looking for food. After the eggs hatch, the noncuckoo parents will typically raise the cuckoo chicks as if they were their own offspring, even if the cuckoos look very different from the other chicks.

[red]*Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole? *

A)It introduces a physical feature of female cuckoos that is described later in the text.

B)It describes the appearance of the cuckoo nests mentioned earlier in the text.

C) It offers a detail about how female cuckoos carry out the behavior discussed in the text.

D) It explains how other birds react to the female cuckoo behavior discussed in the text.

"In many agricultural environments, the banks of streams are kept forested to protect water quality, but it’s been unclear what effects these forests may have on stream biodiversity. To investigate the issue, biologist Xingli Giam and colleagues studied an Indonesian oil palm plantation, comparing the species richness of forested streams with that of nonforested streams. Giam and colleagues found that species richness was significantly higher in forested streams, a finding the researchers attribute to the role leaf litter plays in sheltering fish from predators and providing food resources.

[red]*Which choice best states the main purpose of the text? *

A)It discusses research intended to settle a debate about how agricultural yields can be increased without negative effects on water quality.

B)It explains the differences between stream-protection strategies used in oil palm plantations and stream-protection strategies used in other kinds of agricultural environments.

C)It describes findings that challenge a previously held view about how fish that inhabit streams in agricultural environments attempt to avoid predators.

D) It presents a study that addresses an unresolved question about the presence of forests along streams in agricultural environments.