Read the following selection, then answer the multiple-choice based on the content of the passage. Utilize the concepts and skills you have learned in any way that you feel will aid in your comprehension of the material.

Question

Once, at the height of the Korean War, I found myself unavoidably eavesdropping on an encounter in a Tokyo commuter train between a Japanese girl who erroneously assumed that she knew how to speak English and a young American lieutenant whose Japanese consisted of half a dozen mispronounced phrases that had made their way into G.I. slang. Because the girl had initiated the conversation, the American had jumped to the conclusion that she was sexually available and was politely but insistently trying to convey his readiness to strike a bargain. Meantime, the girl, who was actually a touchingly naive coed from a local university, was eagerly seeking to explain how much she and some of her fellow political science majors would welcome a chance to engage the lieutenant in a discussion of
the foreign policies of the Truman administration.
As it happened, I was obliged to get off the train before this dialogue reached what must have been a mutually frustrating denouement. But it has stuck in my mind ever since as a microcosmic example of a problem which in its ultimate implications is neither funny nor trivial. Complex as the social interaction is between Japanese themselves, the interaction between Japanese and foreigners is trickier still. And not infrequently the consequences of such encounters are both unexpected and disappointing— chiefly because Japanese and non-Japanese so often approach each other with radically different assumptions and some serious mutual misperceptions.

1. The main idea of the passage is that
a. during the time of the Korean War, many American G.I.s married Japanese women.
b. because Japanese and non-Japanese often approach each other with different assumptions, it is difficult to communicate.
c. the man who was eavesdropping had a right to criticize the American G.I. and the Japanese girl.

2. According to the passage, the Japanese girl
a. was attending a local university.
b. had studied English for many years.
c. was reluctant to speak to the foreigner.

3. Denouement, as used in paragraph two, most nearly means a. beginning.
b. train ride.
c. ending.
4. According to the passage, who initiated the conversation?
a. the narrator
b. the G.I.
c. the Japanese girl

5. As used in the passage, the word convey means to
a. deny.
b. insist.
c. relate.

Answer 1

1. b.
2. a.
3. c.
4. c.
5. c.