Question ID b411eb09
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context
ID: b411eb09
New and interesting research conducted by Suleiman A. Al-Sweedan and Moath Alhaj is inspired by their observation that
though there have been many studies of the effect of high altitude on blood chemistry, there is a ______ studies of the
effect on blood chemistry of living in locations below sea level, such as the California towns of Salton City and Seeley.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. quarrel about
B. paucity of
C. profusion of
D. verisimilitude in
Question ID c14daa3c
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context
ID: c14daa3c
Close analysis of the painting Girl with a Flute, long attributed to the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Johannes
Vermeer, has revealed subtle deviations from the artist’s signature techniques. These variations suggest that the work
may be that of a student under Vermeer’s tutelage—potentially ______ our understanding of Vermeer as a solitary artist.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. negating
B. prefiguring
C. entrenching
D. substantiating
Question ID 84dbd633
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Cross-Text
Connections
ID: 84dbd633
Text 1
The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event is usually attributed solely to an asteroid impact near Chicxulub,
Mexico. Some scientists argue that volcanic activity was the true cause, as the K-Pg event occurred relatively early in a
long period of eruption of the Deccan Traps range that initially produced huge amounts of climate-altering gases. These
dissenters note that other mass extinctions have coincided with large volcanic eruptions, while only the K-Pg event lines
up with an asteroid strike.
Text 2
In a 2020 study, Pincelli Hull and her colleagues analyzed ocean core samples and modeled climate changes around the
K-Pg event. The team concluded that Deccan Traps gases did affect global conditions prior to the event, but that the
climate returned to normal well before the extinctions began—extinctions that instead closely align with the Chicxulub
impact.
Based on the texts, how would Hull’s team (Text 2) most likely respond to the argument in the underlined portion of Text
1?
A. By agreeing that the Chicxulub impact changed the climate and that the Deccan Traps eruption caused the K-Pg event
By declaring that the changes in climate caused by the Deccan Traps eruption weren’t the main cause of the K-Pg
B. event
C. By questioning why those scientists assume that the Chicxulub impact caused the Deccan Traps eruption
By asserting that the Deccan Traps eruption had a more significant effect on global conditions than those scientists
D. claim
Question ID 3566120b
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context
ID: 3566120b
The following text is adapted from Oscar Wilde’s 1895 play The Importance of Being Earnest.
CECILY: Have we got to part? ALGERNON: I am afraid so. It’s a very painful parting.
CECILY: It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old
friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been
introduced is almost unbearable.
As used in the text, what does the word “endure” most nearly mean?
A. Regret
B. Persist
C. Tolerate
D. Encourage
Question ID 34d7bb25
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Text Structure and
Purpose
ID: 34d7bb25
According to Indian economist and sociologist Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889–1968), the Eurocentric concepts that
informed early twentieth-century social scientific methods—for example, the idea that all social relations are reducible to
struggles between individuals—had little relevance for India. Making the social sciences more responsive to Indians’
needs, Mukerjee argued, required constructing analytical categories informed by India’s cultural and ecological
circumstances. Mukerjee thus proposed the communalist “Indian village” as the ideal model on which to base Indian
economic and social policy.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
The text recounts Mukerjee’s early training in the social scientific disciplines and then lists social policies whose
A. implementation Mukerjee oversaw.
The text mentions some of Mukerjee’s economic theories and then traces their impact on other Indian social
B. scientists of the twentieth century.
The text presents Mukerjee’s critique of the social sciences and then provides an example of his attempts to address
C. issues he identified in his critique.
The text explains an influential economic theory and then demonstrates how that theory was more important to
D. Mukerjee’s work than other social scientists have acknowledged.
Question ID e7d37666
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context
ID: e7d37666
It is by no means ______ to recognize the influence of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch on Ali Banisadr’s paintings;
indeed, Banisadr himself cites Bosch as an inspiration. However, some scholars have suggested that the ancient
Mesopotamian poem Epic of Gilgamesh may have had a far greater impact on Banisadr’s work.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. substantial
B. satisfying
C. unimportant
D. appropriate
Question ID 570970cd
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Text Structure and
Purpose
ID: 570970cd
The following text is adapted from Indian Boyhood, a 1902 memoir by Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman), a Santee Dakota
writer. In the text, Ohiyesa recalls how the women in his tribe harvested maple syrup during his childhood.
Now the women began to test the trees—moving leisurely among them, axe in hand, and striking a single quick blow, to
see if the sap would appear. The trees, like people, have their individual characters; some were ready to yield up their
life-blood, while others were more reluctant. Now one of the birchen basins was set under each tree, and a hardwood
chip driven deep into the cut which the axe had made. From the corners of this chip—at first drop by drop, then more
freely—the sap trickled into the little dishes.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
A. It portrays the range of personality traits displayed by the women as they work.
B. It foregrounds the beneficial relationship between humans and maple trees.
C. It demonstrates how human behavior can be influenced by the natural environment.
D. It elaborates on an aspect of the maple trees that the women evaluate.
Question ID a1ff8ce3
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context
ID: a1ff8ce3
As discussed by scholar Anna Mladentseva, many artworks produced in the mid-1990s to the early 2000s exclusively for
exhibition on the internet, such as Sinae Kim’s Genesis (2001), have become inaccessible because viewing them requires
the use of ______ software (most notably Adobe Flash, discontinued in 2021).
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. defunct
B. arcane
C. ubiquitous
D. extraneous
Question ID 7b4dde72
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context
ID: 7b4dde72
In 1891, design artist William Morris cofounded the Kelmscott Press, which printed editions of books using preindustrial
methods. Historians argue that Morris’s repudiation of industrialization is ______ the Kelmscott editions’ use of
handmade materials and intricate ornamentation reminiscent of medieval manuscripts: these meticulously handcrafted
elements exemplify the artistry involved.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. insensible to
B. manifest in
C. scrutinized by
D. complicated by
Question ID a60b0004
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context
ID: a60b0004
Scholarly discussions of gender in Shakespeare’s comedies often celebrate the rebellion of the playwright’s characters
against the rigid expectations ______ by Elizabethan society. Most of the comedies end in marriage, with characters
returning to their socially dictated gender roles after previously defying them, but there are some notable exceptions.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. interjected
B. committed
C. illustrated
D. prescribed
