An arco book arco is a registered trademark of Thomson Learning, Inc., and is used herein under license by Peterson’s. About The Thomson Corporation and Peterson’s

(B) hot and cooling
(C) grasshopper and cricket
(D) summer and winter
(E) drowsiness and hills
19. The last line of the poem refers to the
grasshopper’s
(A) leaf
(B) mead
(C) voice
(D) delights
(E) weed
20. According to the poem, the effect of the
cricket’s song is to
(A) create the illusion of summer
(B) remind the listener of a loved one
(C) warm the room
(D) obliterate the memory of the grasshopper
(E) announce the coming of spring
21. In line 6, the word “done” means
(A) finished
(B) enjoyed
(C) known
(D) understood
(E) expected
(5)
(10)

---

Literature Subject Test
59
ARCO
■ SAT II Subject Tests
www.petersons.com/arco
Questions 22–30
He was a tall thin priest, zealous. Everything in
nature seemed to him created with an absolute and
admirable logic. The “why” and the “because” al-
ways balanced. Dawns exist to make arising a plea-
sure, days for the ripening of crops, rain to water
them, evening to prepare for slumber, and the night
was dark for sleeping. He never imagined that na-
ture has no intentions at all.
In his opinion, God had made woman only
to tempt man and to test him. He was indulgent
only of nuns, made inoffensive on account of their
vows. Even them he treated severely, because of
that eternal yearning which still sought him out,
even though he was a priest.
He had a niece who lived nearby with her
mother, whom he was determined to make a Sis-
ter of Charity. Then it happened one day that he
overheard that his niece had taken a lover. All day
he was silent, swollen with indignation and rage.
That night he took down his cane and went
out. He was surprised at the splendor of moon-
light. Why had God done this? Since the night is
intended for oblivion, why make it more charm-
ing than the day?
On the edge of the fields, under a vault of trees
glowing with mist, two shadows appeared, walking
side by side. The still country side enfolded the lov-
ers like a setting made divinely for them. And they
moved toward the priest like a living answer to his
question, flung back by his master.
It certainly was his niece. But was he not on
the verge of disobeying God? Must not God per-
mit love since He lavished upon it such visible
splendor? And he fled ashamed, as if he had en-
tered a temple where he had no right to be.