Detailed Answer Key

Detailed Answer Key & Explanations

TEST 1: FLAMINGO

1. (A) Participles - M. Hamel had said that he would question the students on the rule for participles.
2. (B) Ragpickers - For the elders (ragpickers), garbage is a means of survival, hence 'gold'.
3. (A) 10 or 11 yrs old - Douglas explicitly states he was "ten or eleven years old" when he decided to learn to swim.
4. (B) Captain Von Stahle - The peddler signed the letter as Captain Von Stahle because Edla had treated him with the dignity of a captain.
5. (B) 1916 - Gandhi went to the December 1916 annual convention of the Indian National Congress in Lucknow.
6. (B) Man of 40 - Though called 'office boy', he was actually a man of forty who joined the studios years ago hoping to become a star.
7. (B) Biscuit factory - Jansie reminds Sophie that they were both "earmarked for the biscuit factory" given their financial background.
8. (B) Passing time/energy - 'Trees sprinting' contrasts the energy and speed of youth/time passing with the inactivity of her aging mother.
9. (B) Twelve - The poet asks us to count to twelve, representing the clock hours or months of the year.
10. (A) Bright topaz denizens - The tigers are described as "bright topaz denizens of a world of green," symbolizing their majestic and fearless nature.

TEST 2: VISTAS

1. (B) Psychiatrist friend - Sam Weiner was Charley's friend and a psychiatrist who later found the Third Level himself.
2. (A) 20 - The crown prince came of age at twenty and the state came into his hands then.
3. (B) Antarctica - Geoff Green's programme takes students to the ends of the earth (Antarctica) to foster respect for the planet.
4. (C) On the seashore - Dr. Sadao and Hana found the wounded man flung up out of the ocean, staggering on the beach.
5. (C) Jelly - Mr. Lamb collects the crab apples to make jelly.
6. (B) A bed - Zitkala-Sa crawled under a bed in a large room to hide from the people coming to cut her hair.
7. (A) Watching street shows - Bama was distracted by the performing monkey, snake charmer, and other attractions on the street.
8. (B) 70 - Within ten years, he was able to kill seventy tigers, after which the tiger population became extinct in Pratibandapuram.
9. (B) Escape from reality - The psychiatrist interprets the Third Level as a "waking dream wish fulfillment" to escape modern insecurity and fear.
10. (A) Hit by a bullet - The wound on the right side of his lower back was a gun wound that had reopened.

TEST 3: GRAMMAR

1. (B) who - 'Who' is used as a relative pronoun for the subject (the man) who performed the action (wrote).
2. (C) which - 'Which' refers to non-living things (the book).
3. (B) He is so weak that he cannot walk. - This is the standard transformation for "too...to" sentences (removing 'too' and adding 'so...that').
4. (A) Seeing the police, the thief ran away. - Using the present participle 'Seeing' combines the two actions where one happens immediately after the other.
5. (B) put out - 'Put out' means to extinguish a fire.
6. (B) called off - 'Called off' means to cancel an event.
7. (C) turn off - 'Turn off' is used for switching off electrical appliances/lights.
8. (B) into - 'Into' indicates movement from the outside to the inside of something (the river).
9. (B) on - 'On' is used when an object is touching the surface of another.
10. (B) since - 'Since' is used to denote a specific point of time in the past when an action started.