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Reading Test
6 5 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 Near East and Africa with a friend of her
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passage. grandmother’s, one Janet Miller, who was a medical
This passage is adapted from Mary Helen Stefaniak, The
30 doctor from Nashville, Tennessee. After her travels
Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel. ©2010 by Mary Helen with Dr. Miller, Miss Spivey continued her education
Stefaniak. by attending Barnard College in New York City. She
told us all that at school the first day. When my little
Miss Grace Spivey arrived in Threestep, Georgia, brother Ralphord asked what did she study at
in August 1938. She stepped off the train wearing a 35 Barnyard College, Miss Spivey explained that
pair of thick-soled boots suitable for hiking, a navy Barnard, which she wrote on the blackboard, was the
Line blue dress, and a little white tam that rode the waves sister school of Columbia University, of which, she
5 of her red hair at a gravity-defying angle. August was expected, we all had heard.
a hellish month to step off the train in Georgia, It was there, she told us, in the midst of trying to
although it was nothing, she said, compared to the 40 find her true mission in life, that she wandered one
119 degrees that greeted her when she arrived one afternoon into a lecture by the famous John Dewey,
time in Timbuktu, which, she assured us, was a real who was talking about his famous book, Democracy
10 place in Africa. I believe her remark irritated some of and Education. Professor Dewey was in his seventies
the people gathered to welcome her on the burned by then, Miss Spivey said, but he still liked to chat
grass alongside the tracks. When folks are sweating 45 with students after a lecture—especially female
through their shorts, they don’t like to hear that this students, she added—sometimes over coffee, and see
is nothing compared to someplace else. Irritated or in their eyes the fire his words could kindle. It was
15 not, the majority of those present were inclined to see after this lecture and subsequent coffee that Miss
the arrival of the new schoolteacher in a positive Spivey had marched to the Teacher’s College and
light. Hard times were still upon us in 1938, but, like 50 signed up, all aflame. Two years later, she told a
my momma said, “We weren’t no poorer than we’d cheery blue-suited woman from the WPA1 that she
ever been,” and the citizens of Threestep were in the wanted to bring democracy and education to the
20 mood for a little excitement. poorest, darkest, most remote and forgotten corner
Miss Spivey looked like just the right person to of America.
give it to them. She was, by almost anyone’s 55 They sent her to Threestep, Georgia.
standards, a woman of the world. She’d gone to Miss Spivey paused there for questions, avoiding
boarding schools since she was six years old; she’d my brother Ralphord’s eye.
25 studied French in Paris and drama in London; and What we really wanted to know about—all
during what she called a “fruitful intermission” in her twenty-six of us across seven grade levels in the one
formal education, she had traveled extensively in the 60 room—was the pearly white button hanging on a
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Practice
Test 10
#
Make time to take the practice test.
It is one of the best ways to get ready
for the SAT.
After you have taken the practice test, score it
right away at sat.org/scoring.
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, 1 1
Reading Test
6 5 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 Near East and Africa with a friend of her
.......................................................................................................................................................................................................
passage. grandmother’s, one Janet Miller, who was a medical
This passage is adapted from Mary Helen Stefaniak, The
30 doctor from Nashville, Tennessee. After her travels
Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel. ©2010 by Mary Helen with Dr. Miller, Miss Spivey continued her education
Stefaniak. by attending Barnard College in New York City. She
told us all that at school the first day. When my little
Miss Grace Spivey arrived in Threestep, Georgia, brother Ralphord asked what did she study at
in August 1938. She stepped off the train wearing a 35 Barnyard College, Miss Spivey explained that
pair of thick-soled boots suitable for hiking, a navy Barnard, which she wrote on the blackboard, was the
Line blue dress, and a little white tam that rode the waves sister school of Columbia University, of which, she
5 of her red hair at a gravity-defying angle. August was expected, we all had heard.
a hellish month to step off the train in Georgia, It was there, she told us, in the midst of trying to
although it was nothing, she said, compared to the 40 find her true mission in life, that she wandered one
119 degrees that greeted her when she arrived one afternoon into a lecture by the famous John Dewey,
time in Timbuktu, which, she assured us, was a real who was talking about his famous book, Democracy
10 place in Africa. I believe her remark irritated some of and Education. Professor Dewey was in his seventies
the people gathered to welcome her on the burned by then, Miss Spivey said, but he still liked to chat
grass alongside the tracks. When folks are sweating 45 with students after a lecture—especially female
through their shorts, they don’t like to hear that this students, she added—sometimes over coffee, and see
is nothing compared to someplace else. Irritated or in their eyes the fire his words could kindle. It was
15 not, the majority of those present were inclined to see after this lecture and subsequent coffee that Miss
the arrival of the new schoolteacher in a positive Spivey had marched to the Teacher’s College and
light. Hard times were still upon us in 1938, but, like 50 signed up, all aflame. Two years later, she told a
my momma said, “We weren’t no poorer than we’d cheery blue-suited woman from the WPA1 that she
ever been,” and the citizens of Threestep were in the wanted to bring democracy and education to the
20 mood for a little excitement. poorest, darkest, most remote and forgotten corner
Miss Spivey looked like just the right person to of America.
give it to them. She was, by almost anyone’s 55 They sent her to Threestep, Georgia.
standards, a woman of the world. She’d gone to Miss Spivey paused there for questions, avoiding
boarding schools since she was six years old; she’d my brother Ralphord’s eye.
25 studied French in Paris and drama in London; and What we really wanted to know about—all
during what she called a “fruitful intermission” in her twenty-six of us across seven grade levels in the one
formal education, she had traveled extensively in the 60 room—was the pearly white button hanging on a
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