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SAT Practice Test 7
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SAT Practice Test #7
Section 1: Reading Test
QUESTION 1.
Choice D is the best answer. The final sentence of the first paragraph makes
clear that before adopting his daughter, the weaver Silas was greedy for gold
and chained to his work, “deafened and blinded more and more to all things
except the monotony of his loom.” But after adopting Eppie, Silas became
more interested in life outside his job: “Eppie called him away from his
weaving, and made him think all its pauses a holiday, reawakening his senses
with her fresh life.” A major theme of the passage can be seen in this
transformation, as it represents how loving a child can improve or change a
parent’s life.
Choice A is incorrect because even if the passage implies that Silas was too
materialistic before his daughter’s arrival in his life, his greediness was a personal
characteristic only, not a societal one; whether the society Silas lives in is overly
materialistic is never addressed. Choice B is incorrect because even if the passage
represents the “moral purity” of children, it does so only indirectly and not as a
major theme. Choice C is incorrect because the passage addresses childhood
enthusiasm and curiosity more than “naïveté” and never discusses the length or
“brevity” of that naïveté.
QUESTION 2.
Choice A is the best answer. The first sentence of the first paragraph notes that
“Unlike the gold . . . Eppie was a creature of endless claims and ever-growing
desires, seeking and loving sunshine, and living sounds, and living movements;
making trial of everything, with trust in new joy, and stirring the human kindness
in all eyes that looked on her.” These lines make clear that in contrast to Silas’s
gold, his new daughter is vibrant and alive.
Choices B, C, and D are incorrect because the lines from the first paragraph cited
above reveal Eppie’s interest in “living sounds” and “living movements” and thus
characterize her vitality in comparison to the gold, rather than her durability,
protection, or self-sufficiency.
QUESTION 3.
Choice A is the best answer. In the first paragraph, the narrator describes Silas as
having been so obsessed as to have felt required to worship the gold “in close-
locked solitude,” with “his thoughts in an ever-repeated circle” centered on his
hoard. Moreover, this obsession compelled him to “sit weaving longer and longer,
deafened and blinded more and more to all things except the monotony of his
loom and the repetition of his web.” These lines convey the extent to which
Silas’s behaviors were determined by his obsession.
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, Choice B is incorrect because the narrator does not make it seem as if Silas’s gold
could reproduce on its own, with the first paragraph suggesting that his hoard was
a consequence of hard work, his being “deafened and blinded more and more to
all things except the monotony of his loom and the repetition of his web.” Choice
C is incorrect because even if the first paragraph mentions that, after Eppie’s
arrival, Silas thinks about “the ties and charities that bound together the families
of his neighbors,” the passage never addresses how Silas interacted with those
neighbors previously. Choice D is incorrect because the third paragraph makes
clear that Silas is not only able to recall life before Eppie, but that with her in his
life, “his mind was growing into memory.”
QUESTION 4.
Choice B is the best answer. The first paragraph of the passage describes Eppie as
“a creature of endless claims and ever-growing desires,” one who is “making trial
of everything.” In this context, her “making trial of everything” can be read as her
acting on her curiosity by striving to experience the world around her.
Choices A, C, and D are incorrect because in the context of her “making trial of
everything,” Eppie can be seen as curious, not friendly (choice A), disobedient
(choice C), or judgmental (choice D).
QUESTION 5.
Choice D is the best answer. In the first paragraph, the narrator indicates that
with the arrival of Eppie, Silas’s thoughts turn from his work and his gold
toward Eppie’s future and his life with her: “Eppie was an object compacted of
changes and hopes that forced his thoughts onward, and carried them far away
from their old eager pacing towards the same blank limit — carried them away
to the new things that would come with the coming years.” By influencing Silas
to think “onward” and of “the coming years,” Eppie prompts Silas to envision a
far different future than he would experience otherwise.
Choice A is incorrect because although the passage implies that Silas is less
obsessed with money than before, there is no indication that he has actually
renounced his desire for it. Choice B is incorrect because although the passage
explains that Silas spends time outdoors after the arrival of Eppie, there is no
indication that her presence has necessarily changed his understanding of his
place in nature. Choice C is incorrect because at no point in the passage is Silas
shown accepting help from anyone.
QUESTION 6.
Choice B is the best answer. The previous question asks what consequence Silas
has experienced as a result of adopting Eppie. The answer, that he begins to
imagine a new future for himself and her, is supported in the first paragraph: “but
Eppie was an object compacted of changes and hopes that forced his thoughts
onward, and carried them far away from their old eager pacing towards the same
blank limit — carried them away to the new things that would come with the
coming years.”
Choices A, C, and D are incorrect because the lines cited do not support the
answer to the previous question about the consequence of Silas’s adoption of
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Explanations 2023
SAT Practice Test 7
Correct Answers
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,Answer Explanations
SAT Practice Test #7
Section 1: Reading Test
QUESTION 1.
Choice D is the best answer. The final sentence of the first paragraph makes
clear that before adopting his daughter, the weaver Silas was greedy for gold
and chained to his work, “deafened and blinded more and more to all things
except the monotony of his loom.” But after adopting Eppie, Silas became
more interested in life outside his job: “Eppie called him away from his
weaving, and made him think all its pauses a holiday, reawakening his senses
with her fresh life.” A major theme of the passage can be seen in this
transformation, as it represents how loving a child can improve or change a
parent’s life.
Choice A is incorrect because even if the passage implies that Silas was too
materialistic before his daughter’s arrival in his life, his greediness was a personal
characteristic only, not a societal one; whether the society Silas lives in is overly
materialistic is never addressed. Choice B is incorrect because even if the passage
represents the “moral purity” of children, it does so only indirectly and not as a
major theme. Choice C is incorrect because the passage addresses childhood
enthusiasm and curiosity more than “naïveté” and never discusses the length or
“brevity” of that naïveté.
QUESTION 2.
Choice A is the best answer. The first sentence of the first paragraph notes that
“Unlike the gold . . . Eppie was a creature of endless claims and ever-growing
desires, seeking and loving sunshine, and living sounds, and living movements;
making trial of everything, with trust in new joy, and stirring the human kindness
in all eyes that looked on her.” These lines make clear that in contrast to Silas’s
gold, his new daughter is vibrant and alive.
Choices B, C, and D are incorrect because the lines from the first paragraph cited
above reveal Eppie’s interest in “living sounds” and “living movements” and thus
characterize her vitality in comparison to the gold, rather than her durability,
protection, or self-sufficiency.
QUESTION 3.
Choice A is the best answer. In the first paragraph, the narrator describes Silas as
having been so obsessed as to have felt required to worship the gold “in close-
locked solitude,” with “his thoughts in an ever-repeated circle” centered on his
hoard. Moreover, this obsession compelled him to “sit weaving longer and longer,
deafened and blinded more and more to all things except the monotony of his
loom and the repetition of his web.” These lines convey the extent to which
Silas’s behaviors were determined by his obsession.
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, Choice B is incorrect because the narrator does not make it seem as if Silas’s gold
could reproduce on its own, with the first paragraph suggesting that his hoard was
a consequence of hard work, his being “deafened and blinded more and more to
all things except the monotony of his loom and the repetition of his web.” Choice
C is incorrect because even if the first paragraph mentions that, after Eppie’s
arrival, Silas thinks about “the ties and charities that bound together the families
of his neighbors,” the passage never addresses how Silas interacted with those
neighbors previously. Choice D is incorrect because the third paragraph makes
clear that Silas is not only able to recall life before Eppie, but that with her in his
life, “his mind was growing into memory.”
QUESTION 4.
Choice B is the best answer. The first paragraph of the passage describes Eppie as
“a creature of endless claims and ever-growing desires,” one who is “making trial
of everything.” In this context, her “making trial of everything” can be read as her
acting on her curiosity by striving to experience the world around her.
Choices A, C, and D are incorrect because in the context of her “making trial of
everything,” Eppie can be seen as curious, not friendly (choice A), disobedient
(choice C), or judgmental (choice D).
QUESTION 5.
Choice D is the best answer. In the first paragraph, the narrator indicates that
with the arrival of Eppie, Silas’s thoughts turn from his work and his gold
toward Eppie’s future and his life with her: “Eppie was an object compacted of
changes and hopes that forced his thoughts onward, and carried them far away
from their old eager pacing towards the same blank limit — carried them away
to the new things that would come with the coming years.” By influencing Silas
to think “onward” and of “the coming years,” Eppie prompts Silas to envision a
far different future than he would experience otherwise.
Choice A is incorrect because although the passage implies that Silas is less
obsessed with money than before, there is no indication that he has actually
renounced his desire for it. Choice B is incorrect because although the passage
explains that Silas spends time outdoors after the arrival of Eppie, there is no
indication that her presence has necessarily changed his understanding of his
place in nature. Choice C is incorrect because at no point in the passage is Silas
shown accepting help from anyone.
QUESTION 6.
Choice B is the best answer. The previous question asks what consequence Silas
has experienced as a result of adopting Eppie. The answer, that he begins to
imagine a new future for himself and her, is supported in the first paragraph: “but
Eppie was an object compacted of changes and hopes that forced his thoughts
onward, and carried them far away from their old eager pacing towards the same
blank limit — carried them away to the new things that would come with the
coming years.”
Choices A, C, and D are incorrect because the lines cited do not support the
answer to the previous question about the consequence of Silas’s adoption of
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