ACT Reading

Practice session

Read the following passage, then answer the question. --- PASSAGE 1 — Literary Narrative Marcellus had always kept a small notebook in his breast pocket, though he rarely opened it. The habit had started in his grandfather's study, where shelves sagged under the weight of leather-bound volumes and the air smelled of cedar and old ink. "Write things down before they leave," his grandfather had told him, pressing a blank notebook into his hands the summer Marcellus turned twelve. At the time, Marcellus had not understood what things his grandfather meant — ideas, memories, feelings? But he dutifully carried the notebook through high school, through college, through three apartments and two cities. He had filled none of them. Now, at thirty-four, Marcellus stood at the window of a hospital room where his grandfather lay sleeping. Outside, the parking lot gleamed under a thin November rain. For the first time in years, Marcellus reached into his pocket and drew out the notebook — still blank. He pressed his thumb along the spine and thought that maybe the point had never been the writing at all. Maybe it was the carrying. --- As used in context, the word 'dutifully' (paragraph 1) most nearly suggests that Marcellus carried the notebook:

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