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ACT Reading Test - Prose Fiction Passage - Practice Test 12
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This passage is adapted from Middlemarch, by George Eliot (1874).

 



ACT Reading Test - Prose Fiction Passage - Practice Test 12
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1. The author indicates that Lydgate’s comment in lines 84–85 was:
2. By stating “his mind inevitably dwelt so much on the probabilities of his own life,” the author suggests in lines 47–48 that:
3. By stating “his mind inevitably dwelt so much on the probabilities of his own life,” the author suggests in lines 47–48 that:
4. Which of the following may be inferred about the animosity of the man who Mr. Casaubon fears is “standing by” to take Dorothea after Mr. Casaubon’s death (line 16)?
5. When Lydgate says “some men with his years are like lions” (lines 77–78), he most likely means that Mr. Casaubon:
6. Which of the following best expresses the same idea as that given in the first sentence of the passage?
7. Which of the following best expresses the same idea as that given in the first sentence of the passage?
8. Which of the following attitudes best describes Lydgate’s feelings upon seeing Mr. Casaubon?
9. Mr. Casaubon feels that leaving his money to Dorothea in case of his death would:
10. According to the second and third paragraphs, Mr. Casaubon:

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