Victory for the ACT Student Text 15e

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The author’s primary concern is to demonstrate that: Ǥ ‡‹ˆ ”‹…••‘ †‹† ‘– ˜‹•‹– ‡”‹…ƒǤ B. Biarni might have visited America „‡ˆ‘”‡ ‡‹ˆ ”‹…••‘Ǥ C. Biarni did not visit Wineland. Ǥ ‡‹ˆ ”‹…••‘ ˜‹•‹–‡† ‹‡Žƒ† ϐ‹”•–Ǥ

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9. (B) Reading/Key Ideas and Details/Main Idea The author offers several reasons why the Biarni narrative does not describe the same series of events as those in the Saga in order to prove that Biarni visited ‡”‹…ƒ „‡ˆ‘”‡ ‡‹ˆ ”‹…••‘ †‹†ǡ ȋ ȌǤ ȋ Ȍ misinterprets the author’s strategy: the ƒ—–Š‘” ‡‡† ‘– ’”‘˜‡ –Šƒ– ‡‹ˆ ”‹…••‘ did not visit America, only that Biarni did so before him. (C) is too narrow to be the author’s main point. It is true that the author wants to show that the two voyages are to some extent dissimilar, and that is why he tries to prove that Biarni did not visit Wineland. However, this is only a small part of the overall development. As for (D), again, the author needs only to argue that Biarni did not visit the same –Š”‡‡ Žƒ†• Žƒ–‡” ˜‹•‹–‡† „› ‡‹ˆ ”‹…••‘Ǥ 10. (J) Reading/Key Ideas and Details/Explicit Detail  Ž‹‡ Ͷ͹ȂͶͺǡ –Š‡ ƒ—–Š‘” †‡ϐ‹‡• DzŠ‡ŽŽ—•ǡdz ȋ Ȍǡ ƒ• DzŽƒ”‰‡ ϐŽƒ– •–‘‡•Ǣdz –Š‡”‡ˆ‘”‡ǡ eliminate (F) and (H). “Heriulfsness,” (III), ‹• ‹’Ž‹…‹–Ž› †‡ϐ‹‡† ‹ Ž‹‡• ͷͺȂͷͻ ƒ• –Š‡ home of Biarni’s father. Although it is clear that a “doegr,” (I), is a unit of time, the amount of time it spans could be a day, two days, a week, a fortnight, or a month. Therefore, the correct answer includes (II) and (III) only, (J). 11. (D) Reading/Key Ideas and Details/ Implied Idea In the second paragraph, the author acknowledges that Biarni may have been ‡‹ˆ ”‹…••‘ǯ•…‘’ƒ‹‘ ƒ† –Šƒ– –Š‡ Biarni narrative might be a garbled tale of that adventure. This suggests that objectors might try to explain away the “other voyage” in this way, (A). Since the author spends so much effort attempting to prove that the two voyages did not include exactly the same countries, it is inferable that objectors use the similarity between the two voyages as proof that there was only one, (B). In the third paragraph, the author argues that it is reasonable to believe that Biarni could sail directly to his father’s house since the house was situated by known navigational landmarks, suggesting that objectors

10. The passage provides information that †‡ϐ‹‡• ™Š‹…Š ‘ˆ –Š‡ ˆ‘ŽŽ‘™‹‰ –‡”•ǫ I. Doegr II. Hellus III. Heriulfsness F. I only G. II only H. I and II only J. II and III only 11. It can be inferred from the passage that scholars who doubt the authenticity of the Biarni narrative make all of the following objections EXCEPT: Ǥ ‹ƒ”‹ ‹‰Š– Šƒ˜‡ ƒ……‘’ƒ‹‡† ‡‹ˆ Ericsson on the voyage to America, and that is why a separate, erroneous narrative was invented. B. the similarity of the voyages described in the Saga and in the Flat Island Book indicates that there was but one voyage, not two voyages. C. it seems very improbable that a ship, having sailed from America to Greenland, could have found its way to a precise point on the coast of Greenland. D. both the Saga of Eric the Red and the Flat Island Book make use of mythic formulas, so it is probable that the same person wrote them both.