Question ID d83c3d54
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Information and Command of
Ideas Evidence
ID: d83c3d54
Characteristics of the Banks of the
Provo River Downstream of the
Jordanelle Dam
140,000
Area (square meters)
120,000
100,000
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
0
1987 1993 2006
Year
grass cover
bare soil
forest cover
The Jordanelle Dam was built on the Provo River in Utah in 1992. Earth scientist Adriana E. Martinez and colleagues tracked
changes to the environment on the banks of the river downstream of the dam, including how much grass and forest cover
were present. They concluded that the dam changed the flow of the river in ways that benefited grass plants but didn’t
benefit trees.
Which choice best describes data from the graph that support Martinez and colleagues’ conclusion?
The lowest amount of grass cover was approximately 58,000 square meters, and the highest amount of forest cover was
A. approximately 75,000 square meters.
There was more grass cover than forest cover in 1987, and this difference increased dramatically in 1993 and again in
B. 2006.
There was less grass cover than bare soil in 1987 but more grass cover than bare soil in 1993 and 2006, whereas there
C. was more forest cover than bare soil in all three years.
D. Grass cover increased from 1987 to 1993 and from 1993 to 2006, whereas forest cover decreased in those periods.
Question ID 403fb4e4
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Information and Command of
Ideas Evidence
ID: 403fb4e4
Percentage of Ondo State
Small-Scale Farmers Who Are
Female, by Main Crop Grown
60
55
50
as a percentage of total
45
Female farmers
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
o o o
Ond Ond Ond
h l h
rt t ra ut
no c en so
Ondo State region
cereals
root crops
non–root vegetables
Geographer Adebayo Oluwole Eludoyin and his colleagues surveyed small-scale farmers in three locations in Ondo State,
Nigeria—which has mountainous terrain in the north, an urbanized center, and coastal terrain in the south—to learn more
about their practices, like the types of crops they mainly cultivated. In some regions, female farmers were found to be
especially prominent in the cultivation of specific types of crops and even constituted the majority of farmers who cultivated
those crops; for instance, ______
Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the example?
most of the farmers who mainly cultivated cereals and most of the farmers who mainly cultivated non–root vegetables in
A. south Ondo were women.
B. more women in central Ondo mainly cultivated root crops than mainly cultivated cereals.
C. most of the farmers who mainly cultivated non–root vegetables in north and south Ondo were women.
D. a relatively equal proportion of women across the three regions of Ondo mainly cultivated cereals.
Question ID 94c54577
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Information and Command of
Ideas Evidence
ID: 94c54577
While attending school in New York City in the 1980s, Okwui Enwezor encountered few works by African artists in
exhibitions, despite New York’s reputation as one of the best places to view contemporary art from around the world.
According to an arts journalist, later in his career as a renowned curator and art historian, Enwezor sought to remedy this
deficiency, not by focusing solely on modern African artists, but by showing how their work fits into the larger context of
global modern art and art history.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the journalist’s claim?
As curator of the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany, Enwezor organized a retrospective of Ghanaian sculptor El
Anatsui’s work entitled El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, one of the largest art exhibitions devoted to a Black artist in Europe’s
A. history.
In the exhibition Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945–1965, Enwezor and cocurator Katy Siegel
brought works by African artists such as Malangatana Ngwenya together with pieces by major figures from other
B. countries, like US artist Andy Warhol and Mexico’s David Siqueiros.
Enwezor’s work as curator of the 2001 exhibition The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa,
1945–1994 showed how African movements for independence from European colonial powers following the Second
World War profoundly influenced work by African artists of the period, such as Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq and Thomas
C. Mukarobgwa.
Enwezor organized the exhibition In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present not to emphasize a particular
aesthetic trend but to demonstrate the broad range of ways in which African artists have approached the medium of
D. photography.
Question ID d4a8f7cb
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context
ID: d4a8f7cb
Dance choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar aims to give people the opportunity to be ______ her creative process. For
example, live performances of her dance HairStories, which debuted in 2001, featured videos of people across the United
States talking about their hair and audience members sharing pictures of their interesting hairstyles.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. nervous about
B. completed by
C. delayed by
D. involved in
Question ID 84ece3f6
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context
ID: 84ece3f6
The following text is adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1844 short story “Drowne’s Wooden Image.” Drowne, a young man,
is carving a wooden figure to decorate the front of a ship.
Day by day, the work assumed greater precision, and settled its irregular and misty outline into distincter grace and beauty.
The general design was now obvious to the common eye.
As used in the text, what does the word “assumed” most nearly mean?
A. Acquired
B. Acknowledged
C. Imitated
D. Speculated
Question ID d4732483
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Text Structure and
Purpose
ID: d4732483
Studying late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artifacts from an agricultural and domestic site in Texas, archaeologist
Ayana O. Flewellen found that Black women employed as farm workers utilized hook-and-eye closures to fasten their clothes
at the waist, giving themselves a silhouette similar to the one that was popular in contemporary fashion and typically
achieved through more restrictive garments such as corsets. Flewellen argues that this sartorial practice shows that these
women balanced hegemonic ideals of femininity with the requirements of their physically demanding occupation.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
To describe an unexpected discovery that altered a researcher’s view of how rapidly fashions among Black female
A. farmworkers in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Texas changed during the period
To discuss research that investigated the ways in which Black female farmworkers in late nineteenth- and early
B. twentieth-century Texas used fashion practices to resist traditional gender ideals
To evaluate a scholarly work that offers explanations for the impact of urban fashion ideals on Black female farmworkers
C. in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Texas
To summarize the findings of a study that explored factors influencing a fashion practice among Black female
D. farmworkers in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Texas
Question ID 16631d34
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Expression of Ideas Rhetorical
Synthesis
ID: 16631d34
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
The Million Song Dataset (MSD) includes main audio features and descriptive tags for popular songs.
Audio features include acoustic traits such as loudness and pitch intervals.
Many algorithms use these audio features to predict a new song’s popularity.
These algorithms may fail to accurately identify main audio features of a song with varying acoustic traits.
Algorithms based on descriptive tags that describe fixed traits such as genre are more reliable predictors of song
popularity.
The student wants to explain a disadvantage of relying on audio features to predict a song’s popularity. Which choice most
effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A. Many popularity-predicting algorithms are based on a song’s audio features, such as loudness and pitch intervals.
Algorithms based on audio features may misidentify the main features of a song with varying acoustic traits, making
B. such algorithms less reliable predictors of popularity than those based on fixed traits.
Audio features describe acoustic traits such as pitch intervals, which may vary within a song, whereas descriptive tags
C. describe fixed traits such as genre, which are reliable predictors of popularity.
D. The MSD’s descriptive tags are reliable predictors of a song’s popularity, as the traits they describe are fixed.
Question ID e2693197
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Expression of Ideas Rhetorical
Synthesis
ID: e2693197
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
Oracles of the Pink Universe was a 2021 exhibition at the Denver Museum of Art in Colorado.
It featured eight artworks by South African artist Simphiwe Ndzube.
One of these works is a painting titled Assertion of Will. Assertion of Will depicts three standing figures.
The figures wear clothing made of fabric pieces stitched to the painting’s canvas.
The student wants to describe how fabric is used in Assertion of Will. Which choice most effectively uses relevant
information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A. In Assertion of Will, the figures’ clothing is made of fabric pieces stitched to the painting’s canvas.
B. The exhibition Oracles of the Pink Universe featured artworks by artist Simphiwe Ndzube.
C. Depicting three standing, clothed figures, Assertion of Will is a painting by Simphiwe Ndzube.
Simphiwe Ndzube’s Assertion of Will was one of eight artworks exhibited in Oracles of the Pink Universe at the Denver
D. Museum of Art.
Question ID 601b9d18
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Expression of Ideas Transitions
ID: 601b9d18
Some members of the US Supreme Court have resisted calls to televise the court’s oral arguments, concerned that the
participants would be tempted to perform for the cameras (and thus lower the quality of the discourse). ______ the justices
worry that most viewers would not even watch the full deliberations, only short clips that could be misinterpreted and
mischaracterized.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. However,
B. Additionally,
C. In comparison,
D. For example,
Question ID aaa1907f
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries
Conventions
ID: aaa1907f
To serve local families during the Great Depression, innovative New York City librarian Pura Belpré offered storytelling in both
English and Spanish, an uncommon ______ celebrated el Día de los Tres Reyes Magos, an important community holiday; and
put on puppet shows dramatizing Puerto Rican folktales.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. practice, at the time
B. practice at the time;
C. practice, at the time,
D. practice at the time,
Question ID 7f48b098
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries
Conventions
ID: 7f48b098
Photosynthesis, the mechanism by which plants use sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water into ______ is fueled in part by
an enzyme called Photosystem II that harvests energy-giving electrons from water molecules.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. nutrients
B. nutrients and
C. nutrients,
D. nutrients—
Question ID 148be4da
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries
Conventions
ID: 148be4da
Human-made (synthetic) fibers used in clothes and many other consumer products are more durable than most natural plant
______ the manufacture of synthetic fibers requires toxic chemical solvents that can pollute air and water.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. fibers,
B. fibers but
C. fibers
D. fibers, but
