POSSIBLE POINTS: 20
The following passage was taken from a released ACT reading section. Read the passage, and then answer
the question that follows.
"Mother said that I was like you, and now I know what she meant. I don't know you. I never did. And you don't know
me. You never tried. Now you are sending us away so that you don't have to know or care who we are and what we
think."
My tone, rather than the words, surprised me as much as it did him. It forced me to keep on talking and him to stand
there and listen. "I don?t want to go away," I said. "I don't want to go away because I promised my friend that I
would come to see her every week while she is in the orphanage."
"And what that got to do with me?" His anger, which surprise had lessened for a moment, rekindled.
When the narrator says that "my tone, rather than the words, surprised me as much as it did him" (second
paragraph), it suggests that her usual way of talking to her father is:
O respectful of his authority
O rebellious and undisciplined
O loud and assertive
O open and emotional
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