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Test of Essential Academic Skills: Reading Comprehension, Sentence Correction, Math Problem Solving, Sentence Completion (Page 2 )

Updated On: 1-Feb-2026
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Which of the following best describes the purpose of this passage?

Chang-Rae Lee's debut and award-winning novel Native Speaker is about Henry Park, a Korean-American individual who struggles to find his place as an immigrant in a suburb of New York City. This novel addresses the notion that as the individuals who know us best, our family, peers, and lovers are the individuals who direct our lives and end up defining us.

Henry Park is confronted with this reality in the very beginning of the novel, which begins: “The day my wife left she gave me a list of who I was.” Upon separating from his wife, Park struggles with racial and ethnic identity issues due to his loneliness. Through Parks' work as an undercover operative for a private intelligence agency, the author presents the theme of espionage as metaphor for the internal divide that Park experiences as an immigrant. This dual reality creates two worlds for Park and increases his sense of uncertainty with regard to his place in society. While he constantly feels like an outsider looking in, he also feels like he belongs to neither world.

Chang-Rae Lee is also a first-generation Korean American immigrant. He immigrated to America at the early age of three. Themes of identity, race, and cultural alienation pervade his works. His interests in these themes no doubt stem from his first-hand experience as a kid growing up in a Korean household while going to an American school.
Lee is also author of A Gesture Life and Aloft. The protagonists are similar in that they deal with labels placed on them based on race, color, and language. Consequently, all of these characters struggle to belong in America.

Lee's novels address differences within a nation's mix of race, religion, and history, and the necessity of assimilation between cultures. In his works and through his characters, Lee shows us both the difficulties and the subtleties of the immigrant experience in America. He urges us to consider the role of borders and to consider why the idea of opening up one's borders is so frightening. In an ever-changing world in which cultures are becoming more intermingled, the meaning of identity must be constantly redefined, especially when the security of belonging to a place is becoming increasingly elusive. As our world grows smaller with increasing technological advances, these themes in Lee's novels become even more pertinent.

  1. to criticize
  2. to entertain
  3. to inform
  4. to analyze

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

The passage was written to analyze the works by Chang-Rae Lee and the themes presented in his most famous novels.



As the best-informed and most dispassionate of the panel members, Dr. Camila Torrez was the most – of those offering views on fission technology.

  1. unsuspecting
  2. preposterous
  3. persuasive
  4. confusing
  5. temperamental

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

The use of conjunction “as” (meaning because), shows that the second part of the sentence must logically follow from the first part. The missing word must therefore describe a person who is best-informed and most dispassionate. Among the choices, it is only the word “persuasive” that can describe such a person. So, the answer is “persuasive”.



Although the colonist resented the new British laws, they ____________them as long as England did not
____________ them too strenuously.

  1. rejected; define
  2. amended; follow
  3. tolerated; enforce
  4. defied; interpret
  5. welcomed; observe

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

The use of the conjunction “although” indicates that there is a contradiction in means between the first and the second parts in the sentence. If the colonists resented (meaning hated) the new British laws, they must normally be expected to have protested against it. But because of the use of the conjunction “although” in the sentence, we must underhand that their action was the opposite of protested.
The only choices for the first missing word which are the opposite of protested are “tolerated” and “well-fed.” The pair word of “welcomed; observe” is not appropriate for the second mark because it was not British, but the colonists, who were expected to observe the new laws, while the role of the British, as the superior power, was to enforce the new laws.
If the British did not enforce the new laws too strenuously, the colonists would not have minded tolerating them. So, it is “tolerated; enforce” the answer.



The discovery that interstellar ____________ exist ____________the scientific hypothesis that the expanses between the stars are devoid of matter.

  1. galaxies; revived
  2. constellations; prompted
  3. molecules; demolished
  4. vastness; challenged
  5. vacuums; altered

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

The word “interstellar” means the space between stars.
The sentence speaks of “the scientific hypothesis that the expanses between the stars ate devoid of matter.” A hypothesis can be either confirmed of falsified by any new discovery. So, among the choices for the second missing word, “demolished” is the only word, which has one of these meanings.
The theory that the expanses between the stars are devoid of matter would certainly have been demolished, if it had been discovered that there are molecules in interstellar space. Thus, the word “molecules” is well to give a cogent meaning to the sentence. So, “molecules; demolished” is the answer.



Students who interpret the honor strictly find it ____________that some bright student’s complete take-home examinations for less proficient friends.

  1. remedial
  2. irreproachable
  3. unconscionable
  4. irrelevant
  5. magnanimous

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

The sentence seeks to contrast the attitudes of two sets of students – those who interpret the honor code strictly, and those who answer the take-home examinations on behalf of other, less intelligent students. Obviously, those students who interpret the honor code strictly would hold that no student should attempt to answer the lake home examination for another student. They would, therefore, not consider the practice a brighter student answering the home examination of a less bright student as “remedial”, or “irreproachable”, or “irrelevant”, or “magnanimous”.

They would certainly consider this practice as “unconscionable” (meaning against one's conscience). So, “unconscionable” is the answer.



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