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EXAMPLE:
4. All of the following statements are true EXCEPT:
(A) In the final line of the poem, the eagle takes flight.
(B) The setting is a sunny day.
(C) The eagle is perched high on a mountain.
(D) The mountain is near the sea.
(E) The eagle is sitting in a nest.
Notice that this question stem includes the word EXCEPT. This word reverses the point of the question.
Instead of looking for a statement that is true, we are looking for a statement that is false. The correct
answer, therefore, is (E). Nothing in the poem suggests that the eagle is sitting in a nest.

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Literature Subject Test
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Lesson 3
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LITERATURE SUBJECT TEST
Directions: This test contains selections from several literary works followed by questions on their
content, form, and style. Read each poem or passage, select the best answer to each question, and
darken the corresponding circle on the answer sheet.
Questions 1–8
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these conténts
Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war’s quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
‘Gainst death and all oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes.