Intended for students taking the Grade 12 Examination in English 30 in Alberta, Canada, this reading test (to be administered along with a questions booklet) includes the following 10 short selections taken from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama: "Parents as People (with Children)" (Ellen Goodman); "Everybody Knows about the Arctic" (Jim Green); an excerpt from "The Red Dress" (Alice Munro); an excerpt from "Henry VIII, Act III, Scene ii" (William Shakespeare); an excerpt from "A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene ii" (Tennessee Williams); "The Sun Here" (Walter Bauer); an excerpt from "We Have the Awful Knowledge to Make Exact Copies of Human Beings" (Willard Gaylin); "The Tally Stick" (Jarold Ramsey); "Mayhew" (W. Somerset Maugham); and "On Seeing" (Annie Dillard). (JD)