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If you have or use any communications device, no matter how briefly, your examination will be invalidated and no score will be calculated for you.  \nA separate answer sheet has been provided for you. Follow the instructions for completing the student information on your answer sheet. You must also fill in the heading on each page of your essay booklet that has a space for it, and write your name at the top of each sheet of scrap paper.  \nThe examination has three parts. For Part 1, you are to read the texts and answer all 24 multiple-choice questions. For Part 2, you are to read the texts and write one source-based argument. For Part 3, you are to read the text and write a text-analysis response. The source-based argument and text-analysis response should be written in pen. Keep in mind that the language and perspectives in a text may reflect the historical and/or cultural context of the time or place in which it was written.  \nWhen you have completed the examination, you must sign the statement printed at the bottom of the front of the answer sheet, indicating that you had nounlawful knowledge of the questions or answers prior to the examination and that you have neither given nor received assistance in answering any of the questions during the examination. Your answer sheet cannot be accepted if you fail to sign this declaration.  \nDO NOT OPEN THIS EXAMINATION BOOKLET UNTIL THE SIGNAL IS GIVEN.  \nREGENTS IN ELA  \nPart 1  \nDirections (1–24): Closely read each of the three passages below. After each passage, there are several multiplechoice questions. Select the best suggested answer to each question and record your answer on the separate answer sheet provided for you. You may use the margins to take notes as you read.  \nReading Comprehension Passage A  \nCaramelo  \nOne would think now that she was living in Chicago, in the same city as her [favorite son] Inocencio, the Grandmother would find happiness. But no, that wasn’t the case. The Grandmother was meaner than ever. She was unhappy. And didn’t know she was unhappy, the worst kind of unhappiness of all. As a result, everyone was in a hurry to find her a house  \n5 of some sort. A bungalow, a duplex, a brownstone, an apartment. Something, anything, because the Grandmother’s gloominess was the contagious kind, infecting every member of the household as fiercely as the bubonic plague.  \nBecause Baby [Inocencio’s brother] and Ninfa’s apartment had room to accommodate a guest, it was understood the Grandmother would stay with them until she could find a  \n10 house of her own. This had seemed all well and fine when the plans were made longdistance with Uncle Baby shouting into the receiver that he insisted, that he and Ninfa wouldn’t think of her staying anywhere else, that the girls were thrilled she was coming. But now that she was actually sleeping in [granddaughter] Amor’s narrow bed with radios and televisions chattering throughout the apartment, and doors and cupboards banging, and the  \n15 stink of cigarettes soaking into everything, even her skin, and trucks rumbling past and shaking the building like an earthquake, and sirens and car horns at all hours, well, it just about drove her crazy; even the rowdy Chicago wind, a rough, moody brute who took one look at you and laughed.…  \nAll day and all night the expressway traffic whooshed past, keeping the Grandmother  \n20 awake. She napped when she could, even when the apartment and its inhabitants jabbered the loudest. She was tired all the time, and yet she had trouble sleeping, often waking once or twice in the early morning, and in her sleeplessness, padding in her house slippers to the living room, where the fron","cbCaiewp7ltVfUSm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiewp7ltVfUSm","pdf",2875353,111,"English","# Part 1\n## Directions (1–24)\n## Reading Comprehension Passage A (Caramelo)\n# Part 2\n## Source-based argument\n# Part 3\n## Text-analysis response","[{\"question\":\"What happens if a student uses a communications device during the Regents exam?\",\"answer\":\"Using or possessing any communications device is prohibited; if used at any time, the examination is invalidated and no score is calculated.\"},{\"question\":\"How are the three parts of the English Language Arts exam organized?\",\"answer\":\"Part 1 requires reading three passages and answering 24 multiple-choice questions. 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