Analyze Development of Points of View Practice Test

Read the passage, then answer the question.

I thought the class election was finally my chance to be heard. When I taped my poster to the hallway wall, the bright letters looked brave.

“You’re really running?” my friend Kira asked, eyebrows raised. Her voice carried a warning, like she was pointing out a cracked step.

“Why not?” I said, but my confidence was a little too loud. In my head, I pictured myself giving speeches, making changes, proving that quiet people could lead.

Kira crossed her arms. “Because people can be mean,” she said. “They’ll joke about your stutter. And then you’ll feel worse.” She wasn’t trying to crush my dream; she was trying to block the pain before it reached me.

I laughed, pretending it didn’t matter. “They can joke. I’ll still run.”

Kira’s eyes softened. “I want you to win,” she said. “I just don’t want you to get hurt.”

How is the narrator’s point of view about running for election revealed across the passage?

Read the passage, then answer the question.

After the play, the director announced, “We’re changing the ending. The hero will apologize instead of fighting.”

In the dressing room, Val slammed her script onto the table. “That ruins it,” she said. “The whole point is courage. People came to see a victory.” Her voice was sharp, like she could cut the new ending out of the air.

Ethan, still in costume, read the revised page twice. He felt a strange relief. The fight scene had always made him tense, like his body was pretending to be fearless while his mind wasn’t. “I think it’s braver,” he said quietly. “Apologizing is harder than swinging a sword.”

Val scoffed. “Brave is standing your ground.”

Ethan looked up. “Or admitting you were wrong.”

The director didn’t argue. She just watched them, letting the silence show that both ideas mattered.

Which choice best explains how the author contrasts Val’s and Ethan’s views of courage?