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Instruction:
- In the passage below is accompanied by a number of questions.
- For some questions, you need to think how the passage might be revised to improve the expression of ideas.
- For other questions, you will consider how the passage might be edited to correct errors in sentence structure, usage, or punctuation.
- Some questions will direct you to an underlined portion of a passage.
- Other questions will direct you to a location in a passage or ask you to think about the passage as a whole.
SAT Writing & Language Section Passage
SAT Reading Writing Practice Test Passage Title: Judithe Hernandez and the Chicana Artistic Voice
Judithe Hernandez’s art career began in Los Angeles during the socially and politically turbulent 1960s. While enrolled as a graduate student at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, Hernandez met fellow student Carlos Almaraz, one of the founding 1 members of the Chicano artist collective known as “Los Four.” At Almarez’s request, Hernandez joined “Los Four” as its fifth, and only female, member. Hernandez became well known for her work with this revolutionary group of artists, who are credited with 2 authorizing Chicano art as its own distinctive school of (US) American art 3 Less known but equally important, however, is the role Hernandez played in providing a female voice within what was at that time a predominantly male Chicano art movement.
Chicano art began as an outgrowth of the more general 4 Chicano Civil Rights 4 Movement; a sociopolitical initiative that began in the 1960s to promote social progress and change for Mexican-Americans.
5 Chicano artists sought to mirror the challenges faced by Mexican-Americans, often by challenging the xenophobic stereotypes of Mexican-Americans in American culture., However, since the vast majority of Chicano artists were men, much of the Chicano artwork of the 1960s and early 1970s represented the experiences of Mexican-American men, failing to represent some of the unique struggles faced by their female counterparts.
6 During her time with “Los Four,” Hernandez developed a distinct visual style as she incorporated indigenous images along with figurative portrayals of Hispanic women, often restrained by elements such as vines or thorns. The significance of her contributions to the Chicano art movement. 7 were recognized as early as 1981, when Hernandez was commissioned by the Los Angeles Bicentennial Committee to produce a mural in celebration of the city’s 200th anniversary 8 The mural portrays La Reina de Los Angeles (the patroness of the city) engaging with images of the past and present.
In it, Hernandez juxtaposes images of male and female 9 farmers with more opulent depictions of modern Los Angeles, 9 but underscoring the invaluable work of Mexican-American men and women in the construction of the city.
Since the 1970s, Hernandez has exhibited additional forms of visual art beyond the mural work that characterized much of her early career. In her recent pastel-on paper series entitled “Adam and Eve,” Hernandez uses iconic religious images to highlight the 10 unequal, gender relations in Chicano culture. Through works such as these, Hernandez continues to provide a voice for Chicano 11 women. Highlighting the unique challenges that they face in America everyday.
SAT Reading Writing Practice Test Questions
Question No 1
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : artists who started
Option C : members who created and belonged to
Option D : creators who began
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Option A : No Change
Question No 2
Which of the following options is the most effective?
Option A : No Change
Option B : establishing
Option C : permitting
Option D : approving
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Option B : establishing
Question No 3
Which choice most effectively establishes the central claim of the passage?
Option A : No Change
Option B : The Chicano Movement, also known as “El Movimiento,” began in the 1940s with the explicit goal of empowering Mexican-Americans.
Option C : Judithe Hernandez was born to a progressive Mexican-American family in Los Angeles that encouraged her involvement in the arts from an early age.
Option D : In the 1960s, Chicano art was often displayed as public murals intended to create a dialogue about the issues faced by Mexican-Americans.
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Option A : No Change
Question No 4
Which choice results in the most effective transition to the information that follows in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : Movement, which was:
Option C : Movement—
Option D : Movement
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Option C : Movement—
Question No 5
the writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence. Should the writer make this deletion?
Option A : Yes, because the topic of Chicano artists is irrelevant to the main idea of the paragraph.
Option B : Yes, because it provides information that is already present elsewhere in the passage.
Option C : No, because it helps to develop the main topic of the paragraph.
Option D : No, because it effectively transitions between the topics of male Chicano artists and female Chicano artists.
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Option C : No, because it helps to develop the main topic of the paragraph.
Question No 6
At this point, the writer wants to provide a transition that effectively links the topics of the second and third paragraphs. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
Option A : As one of the first prominent US artists to depict the experiences of Mexican-American women, Judithe Hernandez played a vital role in the Chicano art movement
Option B : All of the members of “Los Four” were college educated artists who served as activists and educators within the Chicano movement.
Option C : Hernandez and Alvarez collaborated together on a number of public murals for the United Nations Farm Workers and the Ramona Gardens Housing Project in East Los Angeles.
Option D : Chicano artists were heavily influenced by artists from the Mexican Mural Movement, particularly Diego Rivera.
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Option A : As one of the first prominent US artists to depict the experiences of Mexican-American women, Judithe Hernandez played a vital role in the Chicano art movement
Question No 7
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : is
Option C : was
Option D : have been
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Option C : was
Question No 8
The writer wants to smoothly incorporate the mural’s title, “Remembrances of Yesterday, Dreams of Tomorrow,” into the underlined sentence. Which choice most effectively accomplishes this goal?
Option A : The mural portrays La Reina de Los Angeles (the patroness of the city) engaged with images of the past and present, and the mural is entitled “Remembrances of Yesterday, Dreams of Tomorrow.
Option B : The mural portrays La Reina de Los Angeles (the patroness of the city), and is entitled “Remembrances of Yesterday, Dreams of Tomorrow,” while showing the patroness engaged with images of the past and present
Option C : The mural, entitled “Remembrances of Yesterday, Dreams of Tomorrow,” portrays La Reina de Los Angeles (the patroness of the city) engaging with images of the past and present.
Option D : The mural being entitled “Remembrances of Yesterday, Dreams of Tomorrow,” it portrays La Reina de Los Angeles (the patroness of the city) engaging with images of the past and present.
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Option C : The mural, entitled “Remembrances of Yesterday, Dreams of Tomorrow,” portrays La Reina de Los Angeles (the patroness of the city) engaging with images of the past and present.
Question No 9
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : also underscores
Option C : and still underscoring
Option D : underscoring
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Option D : underscoring
Question No 10
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : unequal; gender
Option C : unequal gender
Option D : unequal—gender
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Option C : unequal gender
Question No 11
Which choice completes the sentence with accurate data based on the graph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : women, highlighting
Option C : women, she highlights
Option D : women. And highlighting
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Option B : women, highlighting
