Read the following passage and then choose the best answer for each question.

To date, Canada has produced only one classic children’s tale to rank with Alice’s Adventures in wonderland and the works of Mark Twain; this was Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clinton, Prince Edward Island. Her mother died soon after her birth, and when her father went to Saskatchewan to assume a business position, she moved in with her grandparents in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. There she went to school and later qualified to be a teacher.

Montgomery wrote the Anne books while living in Cavendish and helping her grandmother at the post office. The first of the books, Anne of Green Gabbles, was published in 1908, and in the next three years she wrote two sequels. Like Montgomery, the heroine of the book is taken in by an elderly couple who lives in the fictional town of Avonlea, and Montgomery incorporated many events from her life in Cavendish into the Anne books.

In 1911, Montgomery married Evan Macdonald and the couple soon moved to Ontario, where she wrote many other books. However, it was her first efforts that secured her prominence, and the Anne books are still read all around the world. Her novels have helped create a warm picture of Prince Edward Island’s special character. Several movies, a television series, and a musical play have been based on her tales, and today visitors scour the Island for locations described in the book.

1. The main purpose of this passage is to

2. The word “this” in line 3 refers to

3. According to the passage, Montgomery was raised primarily

4. Approximately when did Lucy Maud Montgomery write the two sequels to her book Anne of Green Gables?

5. The word “elderly” in line 8 is closest in meaning to

6. In the Anne books, the main character lives in

7. Which of the following can be concluded from the passage about the Anne books?

8. The word “prominence” in line 12 is closest in meaning to

9. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word “character” in line 13?

10. All of the following have been based on the Anne books EXCEPT

11. In line 14, the word “scour” could be replaced by which of the following without changing the meaning of the sentence?