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SAT Reading: Long Passages Drill 2, Problem 7
- Foreign Language / Chinese Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Korean Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Arabic Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Spanish Subtitled
- Reading closely / Determining implicit meanings
- Product Type / SAT Reading
- Reading Literature / Analyze how complex characters develop and interact
- Reading Literature / Analyze how complex characters develop and interact
- Analyzing arguments / Analyzing evidence
Transcript
- 00:03
Shmoop alert: Unidentified flying question has been spotted in the area...
- 00:06
It's the passage that just won't go away! Press pause and read it again...if you'd like...
- 00:46
In lines 71 through 73, the author characterizes Aunt Georgiana as...what?
- 00:52
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:57
In this sentence, the narrator thinks about
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- 00:59
how Aunt Georgiana's appearance probably shocks his landlady.
- 01:03
When he uses the phrase "what was left of her," we can't help but imagine some zombie
- 01:07
version of Auntie G wreaking havoc in Boston.
- 01:10
We're going to keep that pleasant image with us as we sift through these answers.
- 01:14
Come on, how could Auntie G have survived out in the wild mid-west of Nebraska this
- 01:18
long, if she was super fragile?
- 01:20
(B) is wrong for sure.
- 01:22
Later in the passage, we hear that Auntie G goes right to bed when she gets to the boarding
- 01:26
house, but there's nothing in this sentence to say that the trip was outright dangerous
- 01:30
for her.
- 01:31
This lady may be withered, but she's still a tough old bird.
- 01:36
Well, Auntie G has definitely adapted to her harsh frontier lifestyle, which this passage
- 01:41
makes clear has taken a serious toll on her.
- 01:45
The focus isn't on her ability to adapt in general, though, so (D) is completely wrong.
- 01:49
Uh, yeah, we're sure that the effects of Auntie G's hardships are clear to everybody
- 01:54
who sees her.
- 01:54
There's no way (A) is correct. Which points us to (E), the correct answer.
- 01:58
Due to how she lives, Aunt Georgiana has broken down quite a bit over the last few years.
- 02:02
We're sure it's nothing a little TLC can't fix.
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