Digital SAT Practice Rhetorical Synthesis #2

1. While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: The student wants to educate someone unfamiliar with Egyptian paintings as to the difference between intaglio and bas-relief painting. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal? A. Intaglio and bas-relief paintings are both forms of art that were prevalent in Ancient Egypt, and were found on walls, columns, and cornices.B. Intaglio designs are those painted on hallowed out sections of a flat surface while bas-relief paintings are raised from the surface. Both were common in Ancient Egyptian art.C. Modern scholars do
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Digital SAT Standard English Conventions Practice Questions: Punctuation

1.  The hour of noon had just struck, and the few visitors still lingering among the curiosities of the great museum were suddenly startled by the sight of one of the attendants running down the broad, central staircase, loudly shouting, “Close the doors! Let no one out! An accident has ____________________ to leave the building.” Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?A. occurred, while nobody’sB. occurred, while nobodiesC. occurred, and nobody isD. occurred, and nobodies 2. She did not answer. She did not even look his way. With a rapid glance into
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Digital SAT Writing Transitions Practice Questions #2

1. He felt convinced, in his own mind, that he had been attacked by some fatal disease. When he arrived in London, ___________ he was relieved to find that the specialists whom he consulted, while they mostly gave him his money’s worth of polite interest, did not display any anxiety as to his condition. Which choice competes the text with the most logical translation?A. after a bit,B. however,C. on the other hand,D. in addition 2. I want to talk to you about the child, little Juliet,” she said, a day or two later. She is not mine ________________  beyond that
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Digital SAT Practice: Writing/Verb Choice Questions

1. The officer nodded, took the boy by the arm, and in a trice ___________ with him into the adjoining store. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of standard English?A. have disappearedB. disappearsC. disappearedD. disappear 2. ________ the white light burn on, Mr. Gryce, by a characteristic effort, shifted his attention to the walls, covered, as I have said, with tapestries and curios. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of standard English?A. LettingB. LetC. Had letD. Have let 3. And sure enough, in another instant this strange being,
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Digital SAT Poetry Practice Reading Questions #4

1. The following is a poem by Alfred Tenison: When cats run home and light is come,And dew is cold upon the ground,And the far-off stream is dumb,And the whirring sail goes round,And the whirring sail goes round;Alone and warming his five wits,The white owl in the belfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch,And rarely smells the new-mown hay,And the cock hath sung beneath the thatchTwice or thrice his roundelay,Twice or thrice his roundelay;Alone and warming his five wits,The white owl in the belfry sits. What is the main idea of the text?A. Cats and milkmaids share much in
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