Globalization and the Information Age: Postmodernism into the Twenty-First Century — Test
Question 19 • TPS EdX English Language Arts 11
Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close . In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place.... And when something really terrible happened—like a nuclear bomb, or at least a biological weapons attack—an extremely loud siren would go off, telling everyone to get to Central Park to put sandbags around the reservoir. What assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?
Answer
A
that volunteers are always willing to help in a crisis
B
that many people express their grief through tears
C
that his creativity will be eagerly embraced
D
that a biological weapons attack is imminent
Explanation
The narrator imagines drains beneath every pillow because people would cry themselves to sleep, with their tears flowing into a shared reservoir. This assumes that many people express grief by crying. The passage does not say that volunteers will help, that others will embrace his idea, or that an attack is imminent.
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