Song Read the selection and choose the best answer for each question. Thea is 11 years old. She lives in Moonstone, Colorado, in the late 1800s. She teaches piano lessons and she wants to be a singer. Thea has recently moved into a small loft room, directly under the low and angled ceiling in the top part of a house. With help from her family, Thea gets for and decorates her room. She has an old walnut dresser for her clothes, curtains made from a thin cloth called cheesecloth, a hat box for a small table, and paper printed with roses on Read the excerpt to learn more about Thea what she does in her room, and why it is important to her. from The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather Winter was long in coming that year. Throughout October the days were bathed in sunlight and the air was clear as crystal. The town kept its cheerful summer aspect, the desert glistened with light, the sand hills every day went through magical changes of color. The scarlet sage bloomed late in the front yards, the cottonwood leaves were bright gold long before they fell, and it was not until November that the green on the tamarisks began to cloud and fade. There was a flurry of snow about Thanksgiving, and then December came on warm and clear. 2 Thea had three music pupils now, little girls whose mothers declared that Professor Wunsch was "much too severe." They took their lessons on Saturday, and this, of course, cut down her time for play. She did not really mind this because she was allowed to use the money-her pupils paid her twenty-five cents a lesson-to fit up a little room for herself upstairs in the half -story. It was the end room of the wing, and was not plastered, but was snugly lined with soft pine. The ceiling was so low that a grown person could reach it with the palm of the hand, and it sloped down on either side. There was only one window, but it was a double one and went to the floor. In October, while the days were still warm, Thea and Tillie papered the room, walls and ceiling in the same paper, small red and brown roses on a yellowish ground. Thea bought a brown cotton carpet, and her big brother, Gus, put it down for her one Sunday. She made white cheesecloth curtains and hung them on a tape. Her mother gave her an old walnut dresser with a broken mirror,and she had her own dumpy walnut single bed, and a blue washbowl and pitcher which she had drawn at a church fair lottery. At the head of her bed she had a tall round wooden hat- crate, from the clothing store. This, standing on end and draped with cretonne, made a fairly steady table for her lantern. She was not allowed to take a lamp upstairs, so Ray Kennedy gave her a railroad lantern by which she could read at night. In winter this loft room of Thea's was bitterly cold, but against her mother's advice-and Tillie's-she always left her window open a little way. Thea asked Dr. Archie about the window, and he told her that a girl who sang must always have plenty of fresh air, or her voice would get husky, and that the cold would harden her throat. The important thing, he said , was to keep your feet warm. On very cold nights Thea always put a brick in the oven after supper, and when she went upstairs she wrapped it in an old flannel petticoat and put it in her bed. The boys , who would never heat bricks for themselves, sometimes carried off Thea's, and thought it a good joke to get ahead of her. When Thea first plunged in between her red blankets, the cold sometimes kept her awake for a good while. After half an hour her body and round, sturdy glowed like a little stove 19. Which quotation from the excerpt shows that Thea's room serves as a place for reflection? It was the end room of the wing,and was not plastered,but was snugly lined with soft pine. (paragraph 2) She was not allowed to take a lamp upstairs,so Ray Kennedy gave her a railroad lantern by which she coul at night. (paragraph 2) c ) It was one of the most important things that ever happened to her. (paragraph 5) D. In the end of the wing, separated from the other upstairs sleeping -rooms by a long,cold, unfinished lumbe her mind worked better.(paragraph 5) 20. Read this quotation from paragraph 3. In winter this loft room of Thea's was bitterly cold, but against her mother's advice-and Tillie's-she always left her window open a little way. The author includes the detail about leaving the window open most likely to develop the idea that Thea - A. is dedicated to becoming a successful vocalist has a stubborn streak that resists authority C. thinks that her family is often overprotective D manages to find a way to partly satisfy everyone 21. Read this quotation from paragraph 3. The boys, who would never heat bricks for themselves, sometimes carried off Thea's, and thought it a good joke to get ahead of her. Based on the quotation , the reader can best infer that the boys are -