3.4.4 Test (TST): Wrap-Up: The American Narrative
Test
English 11 Sem 1
Points Possible: 45
Name: Peter Xia
Date: 26/10/2020
1. Short-response prompt (15 points)
Read the following excerpt from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain.
Two or three of the boys had long been persons of consideration among us because they had been to St.
Louis once and had a vague general knowledge of its wonders, but the day of their glory was over now.
They lapsed into a humble silence, and learned to disappear when the ruthless “cub”-engineer
