26. The correct answer is (A). In the fifth paragraph, the author writes that the countryside enveloped
the lovers “like a setting made divinely for them”—that the setting was created by God for the lovers.
This disturbs the priest, because it upsets his nice, neat, and tidy view of the world.
Watch out for (B), (D), and (E). These are ideas that come to the priest, but not in the fifth paragraph.
27. The correct answer is (D). In the first paragraph, the author states that the priest believes that the
night is dark because God created it for sleeping. In the fourth paragraph, the priest—in the face of
rising doubts—reminds himself that the night is intended for “oblivion.” In this context, oblivion, or
a state of unconsciousness, must mean sleep.
28. The correct answer is (D). The first paragraph describes the priest’s view of nature: everything has
a purpose ordained by God. Choice (D) expresses an idea that is contradictory to this view. It is an
idea that is introduced by the author in the last sentence of the first paragraph to show the simplicity
of the priest’s view by contrasting it with an idea that the priest himself had never had.
29. The correct answer is (D). The gender and sexuality of the niece are vital to the development of the
story. The fact that the niece lives close by is only incidental. You can prove this to yourself by
imagining how the story would read if the niece lived in a faraway town. The priest could still travel
to that town, find the lovers—say, walking together along a tree-lined street—and reach the same
conclusions.
30. The correct answer is (B). The use of the word temple in the final paragraph is very interesting,
because it suggests that the priest has finally realized that the realm of sexuality is equally valid to that
of religion—but he has no place there. The “vault of trees” creates an image of a location that is
similar to a temple or church but has a different function.
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