Question ID 1281dfd5
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Information and Command of
Ideas Evidence
ID: 1281dfd5
Number of Lizard Species by Average
Percent of Maximal Speed Used When
Pursuing Prey or Escaping Predators
9
Number of lizard species
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
–39 –49 –59 –69 –79 –89 100
30 40 50 60 70 80 90–
Percent of maximal speed
escaping pursuing
It may seem that the optimal strategy for an animal pursuing prey or escaping predators is to move at maximal speed, but
the energy expense of exploiting full speed capacity can disfavor such a strategy even in escape contexts, as evidenced by
the fact that ______
Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the text?
most lizard species use about the same percentage of their maximal speed when escaping predation as they do when
A. pursuing prey.
B. multiple lizard species move at an average of less than 90% of their maximal speed while escaping predation.
more lizard species use, on average, 90%–100% of their maximal speed while escaping predation than use any other
C. percentage of their maximal speed.
D. at least 4 lizard species use, on average, less than 100% of their maximal speed while pursuing prey.
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
ndo ndo ndo
O l O O
tr h a th
no entr sou
c
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 ce4448b7
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Information and Inferences
Ideas
ID: ce4448b7
Researchers recently found that disruptions to an enjoyable experience, like a short series of advertisements during a
television show, often increase viewers’ reported enjoyment. Suspecting that disruptions to an unpleasant experience would
have the opposite effect, the researchers had participants listen to construction noise for 30 minutes and anticipated that
those whose listening experience was frequently interrupted with short breaks of silence would thus ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A. find the disruptions more irritating as time went on.
B. rate the listening experience as more negative than those whose listening experience was uninterrupted.
C. rate the experience of listening to construction noise as lasting for less time than it actually lasted.
D. perceive the volume of the construction noise as growing softer over time.
Question ID 7a1877be
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Information and Command of
Ideas Evidence
ID: 7a1877be
Nucleobase Concentrations from Murchison Meteorite and Soil Samples in Parts per Billion
Nucleobase Murchison meteorite sample 1 Murchison meteorite sample 2 Murchison soil sample
Isoguanine 0.5 0.04 not detected
Purine 0.2 0.02 not detected
Xanthine 39 3 1
Adenine 15 1 40
Hypoxanthine 24 1 2
Employing high-performance liquid chromatography—a process that uses pressurized water to separate material into its
component molecules—astrochemist Yashiro Oba and colleagues analyzed two samples of the Murchison meteorite that
landed in Australia as well as soil from the landing zone of the meteorite to determine the concentrations of various organic
molecules. By comparing the relative concentrations of types of molecules known as nucleobases in the Murchison
meteorite with those in the soil, the team concluded that there is evidence that the nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite
formed in space and are not the result of contamination on Earth.
Which choice best describes data from the table that support the team’s conclusion?
A. Isoguanine and purine were detected in both meteorite samples but not in the soil sample.
B. Adenine and xanthine were detected in both of the meteorite samples and in the soil sample.
C. Hypoxanthine and purine were detected in both the Murchison meteorite sample 2 and in the soil sample.
D. Isoguanine and hypoxanthine were detected in the Murchison meteorite sample 1 but not in sample 2.
Question ID 58e9e497
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Information and Inferences
Ideas
ID: 58e9e497
In the early nineteenth century, some Euro-American farmers in the northeastern United States used agricultural techniques
developed by the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people centuries earlier, but it seems that few of those farmers had actually
seen Haudenosaunee farms firsthand. Barring the possibility of several farmers of the same era independently developing
techniques that the Haudenosaunee people had already invented, these facts most strongly suggest that ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A. those farmers learned the techniques from other people who were more directly influenced by Haudenosaunee practices.
the crops typically cultivated by Euro-American farmers in the northeastern United States were not well suited to
B. Haudenosaunee farming techniques.
C. Haudenosaunee farming techniques were widely used in regions outside the northeastern United States.
Euro-American farmers only began to recognize the benefits of Haudenosaunee farming techniques late in the
D. nineteenth century.
Question ID 6a6bbac3
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Information and Command of
Ideas Evidence
ID: 6a6bbac3
Number and Origin of Clamshell Tools Found at Different Levels Below the Surface in Neanderthal Cave
Depth of tools found below Clamshells that Neanderthals Clamshells that Neanderthals
surface in cave (meters) collected from the beach harvested from the seafloor
3–4 99 33
6–7 1 0
4–5 2 0
2–3 7 0
5–6 18 7
Studying tools unearthed at a cave site on the western coast of Italy, archaeologist Paola Villa and colleagues have
determined that prehistoric Neanderthal groups fashioned them from shells of clams that they harvested from the seafloor
while wading or diving or that washed up on the beach. Clamshells become thin and eroded as they wash up on the beach,
while those on the seafloor are smooth and sturdy, so the research team suspects that Neanderthals prized the tools made
with seafloor shells. However, the team also concluded that those tools were likely more challenging to obtain, noting that
______
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to support the research team’s conclusion?
at each depth below the surface in the cave, the difference in the numbers of tools of each type suggests that shells were
A. easier to collect from the beach than to harvest from the seafloor.
the highest number of tools were at a depth of 3–4 meters below the surface, which suggests that the Neanderthal
B. population at the site was highest during the related period of time.
at each depth below the surface in the cave, the difference in the numbers of tools of each type suggests that
C. Neanderthals preferred to use clamshells from the beach because of their durability.
the higher number of tools at depths of 5–6 meters below the surface in the cave than at depths of 4–5 meters below
D. the surface suggests that the size of clam populations changed over time.
