Question 1 of 5
(1) There came a light knocking at Helga's door. (2) 'Come in,' invited Helga unenthusiastically. (3) The door opened to admit Margaret Creighton, another teacher in the English department and to Helga the most congenial member of the whole Naxos faculty. (4) Margaret, she felt, appreciated her. (5) Seeing Helga still in night robe seated on the bedside in a mass of cushions, idly dangling a mule [a shoe] across bare toes like one with all the time in the world before her, she exclaimed in dismay: 'Helga Crane, do you know what time it is? Why, it's long after half past seven.' (6) The students-' (7) 'Yes, I know,' said Helga defiantly, 'the students are coming out from breakfast.' (8) Well, let them. (9) I, for one, wish that there was some way that they could forever stay out from the poisonous stuff thrown at them, literally thrown at them, Margaret Creighton, for food. (10) Poor things.' (11) Margaret laughed. (12) 'That's just ridiculous sentiment, Helga, and you know it. (13) But you haven't had any breakfast, yourself. (14) Jim Vayle asked if you were sick. (15) Of course nobody knew. (16) You never tell anybody anything about yourself. (17) I said I'd look in on you.' (18) 'Thanks awfully,' Helga responded, indifferently. (19) She was watching the sunlight dissolve from thick orange into pale yellow. (20) Slowly it crept across the room, wiping out in its path the morning shadows. (21) She wasn't interested in what the other was saying. (22) 'If you don't hurry, you'll be late to your first class. (23) Can I help you?' Margaret offered uncertainly. (24) She was a little afraid of Helga. (25) Nearly everyone was. (26) 'No. Thanks all the same.' (27) Then quickly in another, warmer tone: 'I do mean it. (28) Thanks, a thousand times, Margaret. (29) I'm really awfully grateful, but-you see, it's like this, I'm not going to be there at all.' (30) The visiting girl, standing in relief, like old walnut against the buff-colored wall, darted a quick glance at Helga. (31) Plainly she was curious. (32) But she only said formally: 'Oh, then you are sick.' (33) For something there was about Helga which discouraged questionings. (34) No, Helga wasn't sick. (35) Not physically. (36) She was merely disgusted. (37) Fed up with Naxos. (38) If that could be called sickness. (39) The truth was that she had made up her mind to leave. (40) That very day.

The passage most strongly suggests that Helga changes to 'another, warmer tone' (sentence 27) because she wants to

Question 2 of 5
(1) There came a light knocking at Helga's door. (2) 'Come in,' invited Helga unenthusiastically. (3) The door opened to admit Margaret Creighton, another teacher in the English department and to Helga the most congenial member of the whole Naxos faculty. (4) Margaret, she felt, appreciated her. (5) Seeing Helga still in night robe seated on the bedside in a mass of cushions, idly dangling a mule [a shoe] across bare toes like one with all the time in the world before her, she exclaimed in dismay: 'Helga Crane, do you know what time it is? Why, it's long after half past seven.' (6) The students-' (7) 'Yes, I know,' said Helga defiantly, 'the students are coming out from breakfast.' (8) Well, let them. (9) I, for one, wish that there was some way that they could forever stay out from the poisonous stuff thrown at them, literally thrown at them, Margaret Creighton, for food. (10) Poor things.' (11) Margaret laughed. (12) 'That's just ridiculous sentiment, Helga, and you know it. (13) But you haven't had any breakfast, yourself. (14) Jim Vayle asked if you were sick. (15) Of course nobody knew. (16) You never tell anybody anything about yourself. (17) I said I'd look in on you.' (18) 'Thanks awfully,' Helga responded, indifferently. (19) She was watching the sunlight dissolve from thick orange into pale yellow. (20) Slowly it crept across the room, wiping out in its path the morning shadows. (21) She wasn't interested in what the other was saying. (22) 'If you don't hurry, you'll be late to your first class. (23) Can I help you?' Margaret offered uncertainly. (24) She was a little afraid of Helga. (25) Nearly everyone was. (26) 'No. Thanks all the same.' (27) Then quickly in another, warmer tone: 'I do mean it. (28) Thanks, a thousand times, Margaret. (29) I'm really awfully grateful, but-you see, it's like this, I'm not going to be there at all.' (30) The visiting girl, standing in relief, like old walnut against the buff-colored wall, darted a quick glance at Helga. (31) Plainly she was curious. (32) But she only said formally: 'Oh, then you are sick.' (33) For something there was about Helga which discouraged questionings. (34) No, Helga wasn't sick. (35) Not physically. (36) She was merely disgusted. (37) Fed up with Naxos. (38) If that could be called sickness. (39) The truth was that she had made up her mind to leave. (40) That very day.

The description of the sunrise in the sixth paragraph (sentences 18-21) mainly serves to

Question 3 of 5
(1) There came a light knocking at Helga's door. (2) 'Come in,' invited Helga unenthusiastically. (3) The door opened to admit Margaret Creighton, another teacher in the English department and to Helga the most congenial member of the whole Naxos faculty. (4) Margaret, she felt, appreciated her. (5) Seeing Helga still in night robe seated on the bedside in a mass of cushions, idly dangling a mule [a shoe] across bare toes like one with all the time in the world before her, she exclaimed in dismay: 'Helga Crane, do you know what time it is? Why, it's long after half past seven.' (6) The students-' (7) 'Yes, I know,' said Helga defiantly, 'the students are coming out from breakfast.' (8) Well, let them. (9) I, for one, wish that there was some way that they could forever stay out from the poisonous stuff thrown at them, literally thrown at them, Margaret Creighton, for food. (10) Poor things.' (11) Margaret laughed. (12) 'That's just ridiculous sentiment, Helga, and you know it. (13) But you haven't had any breakfast, yourself. (14) Jim Vayle asked if you were sick. (15) Of course nobody knew. (16) You never tell anybody anything about yourself. (17) I said I'd look in on you.' (18) 'Thanks awfully,' Helga responded, indifferently. (19) She was watching the sunlight dissolve from thick orange into pale yellow. (20) Slowly it crept across the room, wiping out in its path the morning shadows. (21) She wasn't interested in what the other was saying. (22) 'If you don't hurry, you'll be late to your first class. (23) Can I help you?' Margaret offered uncertainly. (24) She was a little afraid of Helga. (25) Nearly everyone was. (26) 'No. Thanks all the same.' (27) Then quickly in another, warmer tone: 'I do mean it. (28) Thanks, a thousand times, Margaret. (29) I'm really awfully grateful, but-you see, it's like this, I'm not going to be there at all.' (30) The visiting girl, standing in relief, like old walnut against the buff-colored wall, darted a quick glance at Helga. (31) Plainly she was curious. (32) But she only said formally: 'Oh, then you are sick.' (33) For something there was about Helga which discouraged questionings. (34) No, Helga wasn't sick. (35) Not physically. (36) She was merely disgusted. (37) Fed up with Naxos. (38) If that could be called sickness. (39) The truth was that she had made up her mind to leave. (40) That very day.

In the passage, Margaret indicates that she's concerned when she first sees Helga because she worries that Helga

Question 4 of 5
(1) There came a light knocking at Helga's door. (2) 'Come in,' invited Helga unenthusiastically. (3) The door opened to admit Margaret Creighton, another teacher in the English department and to Helga the most congenial member of the whole Naxos faculty. (4) Margaret, she felt, appreciated her. (5) Seeing Helga still in night robe seated on the bedside in a mass of cushions, idly dangling a mule [a shoe] across bare toes like one with all the time in the world before her, she exclaimed in dismay: 'Helga Crane, do you know what time it is? Why, it's long after half past seven.' (6) The students-' (7) 'Yes, I know,' said Helga defiantly, 'the students are coming out from breakfast.' (8) Well, let them. (9) I, for one, wish that there was some way that they could forever stay out from the poisonous stuff thrown at them, literally thrown at them, Margaret Creighton, for food. (10) Poor things.' (11) Margaret laughed. (12) 'That's just ridiculous sentiment, Helga, and you know it. (13) But you haven't had any breakfast, yourself. (14) Jim Vayle asked if you were sick. (15) Of course nobody knew. (16) You never tell anybody anything about yourself. (17) I said I'd look in on you.' (18) 'Thanks awfully,' Helga responded, indifferently. (19) She was watching the sunlight dissolve from thick orange into pale yellow. (20) Slowly it crept across the room, wiping out in its path the morning shadows. (21) She wasn't interested in what the other was saying. (22) 'If you don't hurry, you'll be late to your first class. (23) Can I help you?' Margaret offered uncertainly. (24) She was a little afraid of Helga. (25) Nearly everyone was. (26) 'No. Thanks all the same.' (27) Then quickly in another, warmer tone: 'I do mean it. (28) Thanks, a thousand times, Margaret. (29) I'm really awfully grateful, but-you see, it's like this, I'm not going to be there at all.' (30) The visiting girl, standing in relief, like old walnut against the buff-colored wall, darted a quick glance at Helga. (31) Plainly she was curious. (32) But she only said formally: 'Oh, then you are sick.' (33) For something there was about Helga which discouraged questionings. (34) No, Helga wasn't sick. (35) Not physically. (36) She was merely disgusted. (37) Fed up with Naxos. (38) If that could be called sickness. (39) The truth was that she had made up her mind to leave. (40) That very day.

According to the passage, Margaret and others at Naxos generally regard Helga as

Question 5 of 5
Passage 1: Some ecologists worry that, to the public, environmental scientists are becoming almost indistinguishable from environmental activists. 'If we promote our opinions as though they are the truth, people won't listen to the science as carefully because they'll think we have an agenda,' says Ingrid Burke, a college professor in Colorado. She and others fret that ecologists will handicap their ability to do empirical research if they go beyond current science by making value judgments-for example, by saying that nonnative plant species or global warming are categorically bad. Such values 'can really affect the way you design a study,' says John Wiens, another professor, who warns against 'creeping advocacy syndrome.' Passage 2: I believe not only that, like any other citizens, environmental scientists can be advocates, but that they ethically must be advocates, at least to the extent of informing the general public about their work and conclusions. The credibility of ecologists has been enhanced as many of them have tried to diagnose environmental ills and suggest cures. After all, biomedical scientists can gain prestige by diagnosing public health problems and recommending solutions-and, interestingly, they aren't accused of advocacy. But scientists should be careful to inform their audiences when they are representing a consensus of the knowledgeable scientific community and when they are expressing their own opinions about actions that should be taken.

The author of Passage 2 suggests that environmental scientists compromise their credibility when they

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