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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 Writing Passage Title: Tiny Exhibit, Big Impact
The first time I visited the Art Institute of Chicago, I expected to be impressed by its famous large paintings. 1 On one hand, I couldn’t wait to view 2 painter, Georges Seurat’s, 10-foot-wide A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte in its full size. It took me by surprise, then, when my favorite exhibit at the museum was one of 3 it’s tiniest; the Thorne Miniature Rooms.
Viewing the exhibit, I was amazed by the intricate details of some of the more ornately decorated rooms. I marveled at a replica of a salon (a formal living room) dating back to the reign of French king Louis XV. 4 Built into the dark paneled walls are bookshelves stocked with leather-bound volumes. The couch and chairs, in keeping with the style of the time, are characterized by elegantly curved arms and 5 legs, they are covered in luxurious velvet. A dime-sized portrait of a French aristocratic woman hangs in a golden frame.
This exhibit showcases sixty-eight miniature rooms inserted into a wall at eye level. Each furnished room consists of three walls; the fourth wall is a glass pane through which museumgoers observe. The rooms and their furnishings were painstakingly created to scale at 1/12th their actual size, so that one inch in the exhibit correlates with one foot in real life. A couch, for example, is seven inches long, and 6 that is based on a seven-foot-long couch. Each room represents a distinctive style of European, American, or Asian interior design from the thirteenth to twentieth centuries.
The plainer rooms are more sparsely 7 furnished Their architectural features, furnishings, and decorations are just as true to the periods they represent. One of my favorite rooms in the whole exhibit, in fact, is a 1885summer kitchen. The room is simple but spacious, with a small sink and counter along one wall, a cast-iron wood stove and some hanging pots and pans against another wall, and 8 a small table under a window of the third wall. Aside from a few simple wooden chairs placed near the edges of the room, the floor is open and obviously well-worn.
As I walked through the exhibit, I overheard a 9 visitors’ remark, “You know, that grandfather clock actually runs. Its glass door swings open, and the clock can be wound up.” 10 Dotted with pin-sized knobs, another visitor noticed my fascination with a tiny writing desk and its drawers. “All of those little drawers pull out. And you see that hutch? Can you believe it has a secret compartment?” Given the exquisite craftsmanship and level of detail I’d already seen, I certainly could.
SAT Writing & Language Practice Questions
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 1
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : For instance,
Option C : However
Option D : Similarly,
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Option B : For instance,
because they propose transitional words or phrases that do not accurately represent the relationship between the pre-ceding sentence and the sentence containing the underlined portion.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 2
Which of the following options is the most effective?
Option A : No Change
Option B : painter, Georges Seurat’s
Option C : painter Georges Seurat’s,
Option D : painter Georges Seurat’s
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Option D : painter Georges Seurat’s
because each separates parts of the noun phrase “painter Georges Seurat’s 10-foot-wide A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” from one another with one or more unnecessary commas.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 3
Which choice provides the most effectively transition to the information that follows?
Option A : No Change
Option B : its tiniest;
Option C : its tiniest:
Option D : it’s tiniest
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Option C : its tiniest:
because “none contains both the appropriate possessive form of “it” and the punctuation that creates a grammatically standard sentence.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 4
At this point, the writer is considering adding the following sentence
Some scholars argue that the excesses of King Louis XV’s reign contributed significantly to the conditions that resulted in the French Revolution.
Should the writer make this addition here?
Option A : Yes, because it provides historical context for the Thorne Miniature Rooms exhibit.
Option B : Yes, because it explains why salons are often ornately decorated.
Option C : No, because it interrupts the paragraph’s description of the miniature salon.
Option D : No, because it implies that the interior designer of the salon had political motivations.
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Option C :No, because it interrupts the paragraph’s description of the miniature salon.
because each represents a misinterpretation of the relationship between the proposed sentence to be added and the main point of the paragraph
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 5
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : legs, the couch, and chairs
Option C : legs and
Option D : legs,
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Option C : legs and
because each lacks the conjunction needed to connect the two verb phrases “are characterized” and “are covered.”
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 6
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : a tea cup is about a quarter of an inch.
Option C : there are even tiny cushions on some.
Option D : household items are also on this scale.
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Option B : a tea cup is about a quarter of an inch.
because it offers an example of an additional household item, a “tea cup,” with a specific measurement that is one-twelfth of its actual size.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 7
Which choice most effectively combines the sentences at the underlined portion?
Option A : furnished by their
Option B : furnished, but their
Option C : furnished: their
Option D : furnished, whereas
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Option B : furnished, but their
because each communicates an illogical relationship between the phrases that precede and follow the underlined portion.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 8
Which choice most closely matches the stylistic pattern established earlier in the sentence?
Option A : NO CHANGE.
Option B : a small table is under the third wall’s window.
Option C : a small table is under the third wall’s window.
Option D : the third wall has a small table against it and a window
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Option A : a small table is under the third wall’s window.
because each deviates from the stylistic pattern of the preceding two clauses.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 9
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : visitors remarking,
Option C : visitor remarked,
Option D : visitor remark,
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Option D : No change
because each contains either a noun or verb that does not fit the context.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 10
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : Another visitor, dotted with pin-sized knobs, noticed my fascination with a tiny writing desk and its drawers
Option C : Another visitor dotted with pin-sized knobs noticed my fascination with a tiny writing desk and its drawers
Option D : Another visitor noticed my fascination with a tiny writing desk and its drawers, dotted with pin-sized knobs.
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Option D : No change
because all three contain dangling Modi-fiers that obscure the relationship between the visitor, the drawers, and the pin-sized knobs.
