Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Practice Question 184: Answer and Explanation
Question: 184
From "The New Colossus," by Emma Lazarus in 1883, engraved on the Statue of Liberty-one of the first things that new immigrants to the United States would see if they arrived by boat.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
As used in the text, what does the word yearning most nearly mean?
- A. Crafting
- B. Enabling
- C. Desiring
- D. Trusting
Correct Answer: C
Explanation:
(C) The "tired" and "poor" immigrants would be eager to embrace a new life of freedom, making desiring the most logical option. The other options do not signify desire.
Test Information
- Use your browser's back button to return to your test results.
- Do more Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Tests tests.
More Tests
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 1
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 2
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 3
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 4
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 5
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 6
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 7
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 8
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 9
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 10
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 11
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 12
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 13
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 14
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 15
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 16
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 17
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 18
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 19
- Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Test 20