Read the following passage.
A. When Grey Owl died of pneumonia in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, on April 13, 1938, a Toronto newspaper called him the most famous Indigenous person in Canada. The press on two continents had accepted his story without question: that his father was a Scot, his mother an Apache and his birthplace somewhere near the Rio Grande. Soon a woman named Angele came forward. She said she was his legal wife and that he was in fact English. Detective work on both sides of the Atlantic soon revealed the truth. He was Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, born in Hastings, England, in 1888, and he had no Indigenous ancestry at all.
B. Belaney had grown up in Hastings, where two aunts raised him. As a lonely boy he loved stories about North American Indigenous peoples, and he invented two imaginary parents for himself. At 17 he sailed to Canada. At Lake Temagami in northern Ontario he joined the life of a small Ojibwa community, and Angele Egwuna, a member of that community whom he married in 1910, taught him their language and gave him lessons in canoeing and trapping. During World War I he served as a sniper until a serious wound to his right foot ended his fighting in 1916.
C. His turn from trapping to conservation began in 1925, when he met Gertrude Bernard, a young Iroquois woman whom he called Anahareo. She had grown up in a town, and it was Belaney who taught her how to survive in the forest. When the two caught a mother beaver, Anahareo pleaded with him to save her two kits, and that request set him on a new course. In 1931 the national parks branch made him a conservation officer at Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba. Six months later the branch moved him to Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan, where he lived in a log cabin on Ajawaan Lake.
D. His books and talks drew wide public interest and helped prepare the way for programs that stressed protecting species and their habitats. Pilgrims of the Wild came out in 1934, followed by The Adventures of Sajo and Her Beaver People in 1935 and Tales of an Empty Cabin in 1936. He toured Britain in 1935 and 1936, and again in 1937, when the tour included a royal command performance at Buckingham Palace. For years after the exposure, the story of his deception overshadowed his conservation work. In 1993 he was named a national historic person, and he is buried beside his cabin on Ajawaan Lake.
E. Not given in any of the above paragraphs.
Decide which paragraph, A to D, has the information given in each statement below. Select E if the information is not given in any of the paragraphs.
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Correct Answer: D
Why this is correct: The fourth paragraph says that for years after the exposure, the story of his deception overshadowed his conservation work. Overshadowed means it got more attention, and conservation work is his effort to protect nature.
Passage Reference: For years after the exposure, the story of his deception overshadowed his conservation work.
Tips: This is about what people noticed after his death. Find where his nature work is set against his lie, and see which one won more attention.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Look at paragraph A: it tells how the truth came out just after his death, but it stops there. It does not say how people remembered him in the years that followed.
- B: Paragraph B goes back to his boyhood in Hastings, his life at Lake Temagami and the war. The scandal has not yet happened.
- C: Notice that paragraph C explains how he moved into conservation and where he worked in the parks. Nothing about his later reputation.
- E: The long shadow that the deception cast over his work is described near the end of Paragraph D.
Correct Answer: A
Passage Reference: She said she was his legal wife and that he was in fact English.
Why this is correct: Paragraph A says the press had accepted his story without question. Then Angele came forward, saying she was his legal wife and that he was English. So the first challenge came from a woman who claimed to be his wife.
Tips: Angele appears in two paragraphs. Ask which one shows her questioning his story rather than marrying him.
Why the other options are wrong:
- B: The second paragraph does report his marriage to Angele Egwuna in 1910. But it describes their life at Lake Temagami, not anyone questioning his story.
- C: Anahareo and the park jobs are the subject of paragraph C. No one in it doubts who he is.
- D: Notice that paragraph D mentions the exposure and his deception, but it does not say who first spoke up.
- E: The first paragraph names Angele and reports her claim to be his legal wife right after the press had believed him.
Correct Answer: C
Passage Reference: When the two caught a mother beaver, Anahareo pleaded with him to save her two kits, and that request set him on a new course.
Why this is correct: He met Anahareo in 1925, paragraph C tells us. When they caught a mother beaver, she begged him to save the two kits. This request set him on a new course, from trapping to conservation.
Tips: Several women appear in the text. Match the mid-1920s and the young animals to the right one.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: The first paragraph also has a woman who changed his life, Angele, but she came forward after his death. It has no animals and no change of work.
- B: Look at paragraph B: it says Angele taught him trapping. That pushed him toward catching animals, not saving them.
- D: The fourth paragraph is about his books, tours and reputation. It does not say what first turned him toward protecting wildlife.
- E: Anahareo's request to save the beaver kits, and its effect on him, is the third sentence of Paragraph C.
Correct Answer: E
Passage Reference: She said she was his legal wife and that he was in fact English.
Why this is correct: Notice that paragraph A shows that he hid where he was really born and that the press believed his story. Paragraph B says he invented parents as a boy. Neither paragraph gives his reason for keeping the story going as a writer.
Tips: Words like because and thought ask for a reason. Check whether any paragraph explains why he lied.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: The first paragraph describes his false story and how it was exposed after he died. It tells us what he claimed, not why he claimed it.
- B: The second paragraph mentions the imaginary parents he made up as a lonely boy. It gives no reason connected to readers or books.
- C: Paragraph C covers Anahareo and his work as a conservation officer. It does not discuss his identity.
- D: Look at paragraph D: it says his deception later overshadowed his work. It does not say what the deception was meant to achieve.
Correct Answer: B
Passage Reference: At Lake Temagami in northern Ontario he joined the life of a small Ojibwa community, and Angele Egwuna, a member of that community whom he married in 1910, taught him their language and gave him lessons in canoeing and trapping.
Why this is correct: The second paragraph says he married Angele Egwuna in 1910. She taught him the Ojibwa language and gave him lessons in canoeing and trapping. Those are practical skills for life in the wild, and she became his wife.
Tips: Look at paragraph C: it also talks about survival skills. Check who was teaching whom.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Notice that paragraph A mentions Angele as his legal wife, but only when she comes forward after his death. It says nothing about what she taught him.
- C: The third paragraph describes forest skills too, but the other way round. Belaney taught Anahareo how to survive. She did not teach him.
- D: The fourth paragraph covers his writing, his tours and his later reputation. There are no lessons in it.
- E: The second paragraph names Angele Egwuna as the woman who gave him lessons in canoeing and trapping.
Correct Answer: A
Passage Reference: The press on two continents had accepted his story without question: that his father was a Scot, his mother an Apache and his birthplace somewhere near the Rio Grande.
Why this is correct: The first paragraph says the story he told the press was that his father was a Scot and his mother an Apache. A Scottish father and an Apache mother are two very different family backgrounds.
Tips: Paragraph B also has invented parents. Look for the paragraph that actually names where they were said to come from.
Why the other options are wrong:
- B: In paragraph B, he invents two imaginary parents as a boy. But it does not say who they were or what backgrounds they had.
- C: Notice that paragraph C is about Anahareo, a real Iroquois woman, and his park jobs. His own claimed family is not described.
- D: The fourth paragraph calls his story a deception but does not repeat what the story was.
- E: The Scottish father and Apache mother that he claimed are both named in the second sentence of Paragraph A.
Correct Answer: B
Passage Reference: During World War I he served as a sniper until a serious wound to his right foot ended his fighting in 1916.
Why this is correct: In paragraph B, you read that he served as a sniper in World War I. A serious wound to his right foot ended his fighting in 1916. A wound in battle that ends his fighting is an injury that closed his military service.
Tips: Keep an injury in battle apart from the illness that killed him. Ask which one stopped him being a soldier.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Paragraph A deals with his illness and death in 1938. Pneumonia is not a war injury.
- C: Notice that paragraph C describes his turn to conservation after 1925. The war is already over by then.
- D: Look at paragraph D: it covers his books, tours and legacy. His time as a soldier is not mentioned.
- E: The foot wound that ended his time as a sniper is reported in the last sentence of Paragraph B.
Correct Answer: E
Passage Reference: He toured Britain in 1935 and 1936, and again in 1937, when the tour included a royal command performance at Buckingham Palace.
Why this is correct: The years of his British tours and the royal performance at Buckingham Palace are in paragraph D. It also names his books. It never says who planned or paid for the tours.
Tips: Ask who did it: the tours are described, but no person or company is named as the organizer.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: The first paragraph says the press on two continents believed him, but it does not mention any tour or publisher.
- B: Notice that paragraph B says he grew up in England, but it covers his life before he became a writer.
- C: The third paragraph describes his work for the national parks branch in Canada. There is nothing about Britain.
- D: The fourth paragraph lists the tours and the royal performance, but it gives no organizer and does not name a publisher.
Correct Answer: C
Passage Reference: Six months later the branch moved him to Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan, where he lived in a log cabin on Ajawaan Lake.
Why this is correct: Look at paragraph C: it says his first park job, in 1931, was at Riding Mountain in Manitoba. Six months later the branch moved him to Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan. Six months is half a year, and the paragraph places the second park in Saskatchewan, not Manitoba.
Tips: Prince Albert appears in two paragraphs. The question is about how long the first park job lasted.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: The first paragraph names Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, as the place where he died. It says nothing about his jobs in the parks.
- B: Notice that paragraph B places him at Lake Temagami in northern Ontario, living with an Ojibwa community. That was not a job in a national park.
- D: The fourth paragraph mentions his cabin on Ajawaan Lake and his grave, but not how long he stayed in his first park.
- E: The third paragraph gives the six months at Riding Mountain and the move to Saskatchewan.
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