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Reading Test
65 M I NU TES, 5 2 QUESTIONS
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading
each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or
implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or
graph).
Questions 1-10 are based on the following glasses bent and smudged, Nawab tended the
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passage. 25 household machinery, the air conditioners, water
This passage is adapted from Daniyal Mueenuddin,
heaters, refrigerators, and water pumps, like an
“Nawabdin Electrician.” ©2009 by Daniyal Mueenuddin. engineer tending the boilers on a foundering steamer
in an Atlantic gale. By his superhuman efforts he
Another man might have thrown up his almost managed to maintain K. K. Harouni in the
hands—but not Nawabdin. His twelve daughters 30 same mechanical cocoon, cooled and bathed and
acted as a spur to his genius, and he looked with lighted and fed, that the landowner enjoyed in
Line satisfaction in the mirror each morning at the face of Lahore.
5 a warrior going out to do battle. Nawab of course Harouni of course became familiar with this
knew that he must proliferate his sources of ubiquitous man, who not only accompanied him on
revenue—the salary he received from K. K. Harouni 35 his tours of inspection, but morning and night could
for tending the tube wells would not even begin to be found standing on the master bed rewiring the
suffice. He set up a little one-room flour mill, run off light fixture or in the bathroom poking at the water
10 a condemned electric motor—condemned by him. heater. Finally, one evening at teatime, gauging the
He tried his hand at fish-farming in a little pond at psychological moment, Nawab asked if he might say
the edge of his master’s fields. He bought broken 40 a word. The landowner, who was cheerfully filing his
radios, fixed them, and resold them. He did not nails in front of a crackling rosewood fire, told him
demur even when asked to fix watches, though that to go ahead.
15 enterprise did spectacularly badly, and in fact earned “Sir, as you know, your lands stretch from here to
him more kicks than kudos, for no watch he took the Indus, and on these lands are fully seventeen tube
apart ever kept time again. 45 wells, and to tend these seventeen tube wells there is
K. K. Harouni rarely went to his farms, but lived but one man, me, your servant. In your service I have
mostly in Lahore. Whenever the old man visited, earned these gray hairs”—here he bowed his head to
20 Nawab would place himself night and day at the door show the gray—“and now I cannot fulfill my duties
leading from the servants’ sitting area into the walled as I should. Enough, sir, enough. I beg you, forgive
grove of ancient banyan trees where the old 50 me my weakness. Better a darkened house and proud
farmhouse stood. Grizzled, his peculiar aviator hunger within than disgrace in the light of day.
Release me, I ask you, I beg you.”
The old man, well accustomed to these sorts of
speeches, though not usually this florid, filed away at
55 his nails and waited for the breeze to stop.
“What’s the matter, Nawabdin?”
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Test 6
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Make time to take the practice test.
It’s one of the best ways to get ready
for the SAT.
After you’ve taken the practice test, score it
right away at sat.org/scoring.
© 2016 The College Board. College Board, SAT, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board. 5MSA05
,
,Test begins on the next page.
, 1 1
Reading Test
65 M I NU TES, 5 2 QUESTIONS
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading
each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or
implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or
graph).
Questions 1-10 are based on the following glasses bent and smudged, Nawab tended the
.......................................................................................................................................................................................................
passage. 25 household machinery, the air conditioners, water
This passage is adapted from Daniyal Mueenuddin,
heaters, refrigerators, and water pumps, like an
“Nawabdin Electrician.” ©2009 by Daniyal Mueenuddin. engineer tending the boilers on a foundering steamer
in an Atlantic gale. By his superhuman efforts he
Another man might have thrown up his almost managed to maintain K. K. Harouni in the
hands—but not Nawabdin. His twelve daughters 30 same mechanical cocoon, cooled and bathed and
acted as a spur to his genius, and he looked with lighted and fed, that the landowner enjoyed in
Line satisfaction in the mirror each morning at the face of Lahore.
5 a warrior going out to do battle. Nawab of course Harouni of course became familiar with this
knew that he must proliferate his sources of ubiquitous man, who not only accompanied him on
revenue—the salary he received from K. K. Harouni 35 his tours of inspection, but morning and night could
for tending the tube wells would not even begin to be found standing on the master bed rewiring the
suffice. He set up a little one-room flour mill, run off light fixture or in the bathroom poking at the water
10 a condemned electric motor—condemned by him. heater. Finally, one evening at teatime, gauging the
He tried his hand at fish-farming in a little pond at psychological moment, Nawab asked if he might say
the edge of his master’s fields. He bought broken 40 a word. The landowner, who was cheerfully filing his
radios, fixed them, and resold them. He did not nails in front of a crackling rosewood fire, told him
demur even when asked to fix watches, though that to go ahead.
15 enterprise did spectacularly badly, and in fact earned “Sir, as you know, your lands stretch from here to
him more kicks than kudos, for no watch he took the Indus, and on these lands are fully seventeen tube
apart ever kept time again. 45 wells, and to tend these seventeen tube wells there is
K. K. Harouni rarely went to his farms, but lived but one man, me, your servant. In your service I have
mostly in Lahore. Whenever the old man visited, earned these gray hairs”—here he bowed his head to
20 Nawab would place himself night and day at the door show the gray—“and now I cannot fulfill my duties
leading from the servants’ sitting area into the walled as I should. Enough, sir, enough. I beg you, forgive
grove of ancient banyan trees where the old 50 me my weakness. Better a darkened house and proud
farmhouse stood. Grizzled, his peculiar aviator hunger within than disgrace in the light of day.
Release me, I ask you, I beg you.”
The old man, well accustomed to these sorts of
speeches, though not usually this florid, filed away at
55 his nails and waited for the breeze to stop.
“What’s the matter, Nawabdin?”
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