All 6 Uses

passage
in
Educated, by Tara Westover
(Edited)

He read the passage aloud a second time, then a third, then a fourth.
p. 4.1

passage = a short part of a longer written work
That evening he read aloud from the Bible, familiar passages from Isaiah, Luke, and the Book of Revelation, about wars and rumors of wars.
p. 112.3

passages = short parts of longer written works
He'd read me a passage of scripture from the Book of Mormon, about a sober child, quick to observe.
p. 119.1

passage = a short part of a longer written work
The passage described the great prophet Mormon, a fact I'd found confusing.
p. 119.1
For two days I tried to wrestle meaning from the textbook's dense passages, but terms like "civic humanism" and "the Scottish Enlightenment" dotted the page like black holes, sucking all the other words into them.
p. 156.3

passages = short parts of longer written works
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? In the days that followed, I wrote that passage everywhere—unconsciously, compulsively. I find it now in books I was reading, in my lecture notes, in the margins of my journal.
p. 301.1 *

passage = a short part of a longer written work

editor's notes: Westover is quoting from Cervantes famous novel, Don Quixote. In Educated, she compares her father's madness to that of Don Quixote.

Definitions:

(1) (passage as in: In lines 1-9 of the passage...)
a short part of a longer written work

This meaning of passage is commonly seen on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.
(2) (meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus)
More frequently, passage refers to a passageway for travel or to the act of traveling. It can also refer to the passing of time or of a law. See a comprehensive dictionary for the many meanings of passage, but for comfort taking standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, be very familiar with passage being used to refer to a short excerpt from a longer written work.