GED Language Arts Test 6 — Flashcards

Questions below refer to the following excerpt from a novel: 

Will His Mother Let Him Leave?    

'Beatrice,' he said suddenly, 'I want to go away to school. Everybody in  Minneapolis is going to go away to school.' Beatrice showed some alarm. (5) 'But you're only fifteen.'    
'Yes, but everybody goes away to school  at fifteen, and I want to, Beatrice.' On Beatrice's suggestion, the subject was dropped for the rest of the walk, but a (10) week later she delighted him by saying, 'Amory, I have decided to let you have your way. If you still want to, you can go away to school.'    
'Yes?' (15) 'To St. Regis's in Connecticut.' Amory said nothing, but he felt a bolt of excitement along his spine.    
'It's being arranged,' continued  Beatrice. 'It's better that you should go away. (20) I'd have preferred you to have gone to Eton and then to Christ Church, Oxford.  But it seems impracticable now—and for the present, we'll let the university question take care of itself.' (25) 'What are you going to do, Beatrice?'    
'Heaven knows. It seems my fate to spend my years in this country. Not for a second  do I regret being American—indeed, I think that regret is very typical of ignorant (30) people. I feel sure we are the great coming nation, yet'—and she sighed, 'I feel my life should have slipped away close to an older, mellower civilization, a land of greens and autumnal browns. . . .' (35) Amory did not answer, so his mother    
continued, 'My regret is that you haven't  been abroad. But still, as you are a man, it's better that you should grow up here under the snarling eagle—is that the right term?' (40) Amory agreed that it was.    
'When do I go to school?'    
'next month. You'll have to start East a little early to take your examinations. After that you'll have a free week, so I want you to (45) go up the Hudson and pay a visit.'    
'To who?'    
'To Monsignor Darcy, Amory. He wants to see you. He went to Harrow and then to Yale—became a Catholic. I want him (50) to talk to you. I feel he can be such a help.' She stroked his auburn hair gently.     
'Dear Amory, dear Amory. . . .'
 
- Adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise