iCAT - 0901 Test Booklet Serial Number: 010901 INSTRUCTIONS Before the Test: 1. DO NOT REMOVE THE SEAL OF THIS BOOKLET UNTIL THE SIGNAL TO START IS GIVEN. 2. Keep only a pencil, eraser and sharpener with you. DO NOT KEEP with you books, rulers, slide rules, drawing instruments, calculators (including watch calculators), pagers, cellular phones, stop watches or any other device or loose paper. These should be left at a place indicated by the invigilator. 3. Use only HB pencil to fill in the Answer Sheet. 4. Enter in your Answer Sheet: (a) in Box 3, the Test Form Number that appears at the bottom of this page, (b) in Box 4, the Test Booklet Serial Number that appears at the top of this page. 5. Ensure that your personal data have been entered correctly on Side - II of the Answer Sheet. 6. Ensure that you have entered your 8-digit Test Registration Number in Box 2 of the Answer Sheet correctly. Start entering the number from the leftmost cell, leaving the last three cells blank. 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You need to log in to www.TestFunda.com and go to Courseware > Test Centre to see your national percentile and access detailed reports. Test Form Number: 111 iCAT.09.01 1 © www.TestFunda.com Use this Page for Rough Work iCAT.09.01 2 © www.TestFunda.com Section I Number of Questions: 35 Number of Marks for each question: 4 Directions for Questions 1 to 15:- Four passages are given below. For each passage, read it and mark the most appropriate answer to the questions that follow the passage. The questions following each passage are to be answered independently of the information in the other passages. Passage I On Thursday, December 16, 1773, the evening before the tea was due to be landed, Captain Roach appealed to Governor Hutchinson to allow his ship to leave without unloading its tea. When Roach returned and reported Hutchinson‟s refusal to a massive protest meeting, Samuel Adams said to the assembly “This protest meeting can do nothing more to save the country”. As though on cue, the Sons of Liberty thinly disguised as either Mohawk or Narragansett Indians and armed with small hatchets and clubs, headed toward Griffin‟s Wharf (in Boston Harbour), where lay Dartmouth and the newly-arrived Beaver and Eleanor. Swiftly and efficiently, casks of tea were brought up from the hold to the deck, reasonable proof that some of the “Indians” were, in fact, longshoremen. The casks were opened and the tea dumped overboard; the work, lasting well into the night, was quick, thorough, and efficient. By dawn, over 342 casks or 90,000 lbs (45 tons) of tea worth an estimated £10,000 or $1.87 million USD in 2007 currency) had been consigned to the waters of Boston harbour. Nothing else had been damaged or stolen, except a single padlock accidentally broken and anonymously replaced not long thereafter. Tea washed up on the shores around Boston for weeks. Many citizens of Boston attempted to carry off this tea. In an effort to thwart this looting, people rowed several small boats out to where the tea was visible and beat it with oars, rendering it unusable. The tea party caused a crisis. Hutchinson had been urging London to take a hard line with the Sons of Liberty. If he had done what the other royal governors had done and let the ship owners and captains resolve the issue with the colonists, the Dartmouth, Eleanor, the William and the Beaver would have left without unloading any tea. Lord North said that if the colonists had stuck with non-importation for another six months the tea tax would have been repealed. In February 1775, Britain passed the Conciliatory Resolution which ended taxation for any colony which satisfactorily provided for the imperial defence and the upkeep of imperial officers. The Tea Act was repealed with the Taxation of Colonies Act, 1778. In the colonies, Benjamin Franklin stated that the destroyed tea must be repaid, all 90,000 pounds. Robert Murray, a New York merchant went to Lord North with three other merchants and offered to pay for the losses, but the offer was turned down. A number of colonists were inspired to carry out similar acts, such as the burning of the Peggy Stewart. The Boston Tea Party eventually proved to be one of the many reactions which led to the American Revolutionary War. At the very least, the Boston Tea Party and the reaction that followed served to rally support for revolutionaries in the thirteen colonies that were eventually successful in their fight for independence. Many colonists, in Boston and elsewhere in the country, pledged to abstain from tea drinking as a protest, turning instead to “liberty tea” (made from raspberry leaves), other herbal infusions, and coffee. This social protest movement away from tea drinking, however, was not long-lived. 1. In the sentence “Nothing else had been damaged or stolen, except a single padlock accidentally broken and anonymously replaced not long thereafter” what is the author trying to imply? (1) That the Sons of Liberty were vandals and they destroyed the goods on the ship. (2) The mysterious replacement of the padlock suggests that goods might have been stolen. (3) The act of dumping the tea into water was a symbolic sign of rebellion. (4) The ship did not contain any other valuable goods besides tea. iCAT.09.01 3 © www.TestFunda.com (5) The monetary damages of the act were immense and significant. 2. What were the immediate consequences of the Boston Tea Party? (1) It repaid the cost of the destroyed tea. (2) It led to the American Revolution. (3) People started drinking coffee only because of the Boston Tea Party. (4) Imports were restricted because of the Boston Tea Party. (5) It helped rally support for revolutionaries. 3. The structure of the passage can best be described as: (1) A historical incident and its causes are discussed. (2) An argument is stated along with the historical evidence to support it. (3) An event is stated along with its immediate consequences. (4) Statistics are provided for indicating the significance of a historical incident. (5) A historical incident with its political consequences has been discussed. Passage II In far-off Syria, a country lying northeast of Palestine, the land in which Jesus was born, the farmers who keep vineyards are very much troubled with foxes and bears, which destroy their crops at night. And so, to protect their vineyards, they build high stone-walls about them, and put broken bottles on the top to keep these animals out, much as some people in this country who have orchards do, in order to keep out small boys. These fences keep out the bears, because they cut themselves on the glass in trying to climb over, and they also keep out some of the foxes. But after all, when the grapes are nearly ripe, the owners of the vineyards and their men are obliged to build platforms up above the trellises, and stay there all night, in order to guard their crops. These watchers manage very well with all the other wild animals excepting the little foxes. They can see the big foxes and drive them off, but the little ones they cannot see, and so these destroy the vines. I suppose that it was an experience something like that which led one of the Bible-writers to say that the little foxes destroy the vines. It seems to me that this is very true with sins, too; it is the little sins that destroy us. When a big sin like stealing, lying or cheating comes along we can see that easily enough, and we will not let it over the fence into our lives - we drive it away, and are soon rid of it.