Question

1.

Read the selection below from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift and answer the question that follows.



He was the more confirmed in this opinion, because he observed, that as I agreed in every feature of my body with other Yahoos, except where it was to my real disadvantage in point of strength, speed, and activity, the shortness of my claws, and some other particulars where nature had no part; so from the representation I had given him of our lives, our manners, and our actions, he found as near a resemblance in the disposition of our minds.



According to the passage above, what is most similar between the narrator (Gulliver) and the Yahoos?

the way they think
their strength and speed
their family relationships
the length of their fingernails

2.
Read the sentence below and answer the question that follows.



The girls ran around the track during P.E.



Which substitution in diction would improve the sentence without changing its meaning best?

replace “track” with “tree-lined neighborhood”
replace “P.E.” with “the citywide track meet”
replace “around” with “through”
replace “ran” with “sprinted”

Answer 1

1st question; The way they think
2nd question; Replace "ran" with "sprinted"

Answer 2

1. the way they think

Gulliver says that the Yahoos "found as near a resemblance in the disposition of our minds." This means that they resembled (or were like) each other when it came to how their minds worked. Gulliver does not talk about family relationships at all. He does says that they were different in terms of "strength, speed, and activity, the shortness of my claws."

2. replace "ran" with "sprinted"

This is the best option because it adds more specific detail to the way the girls are moving without changing the meaning of the sentence. Changing from track to neighborhood or P.E. to track meet would alter the location and purpose completely. Also changing "around" to "through" would indicate that the girls are not actually running on the track but rather across it as though they had to get from one place to the next.