[分享] Sample PSAT Questions--Verbal Sec3-Reading-

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Correct Answer: A
Explanation: Lines 11-15 argue that it is through Hemingway's art that the war, revolution, and injustice that he experienced "achieved their most enduring meaning." The word "enduring" is here used in its sense of "lasting," which best complements the discussion of experience transformed through art into something universal and compelling. Choice (A), then, is the best answer.

question 10 of 10

Lines 1-10 suggest that Hemingway would most likely agree with which statement?
(A) Social injustice can be remedied through art.
(B) Living in troubled times shapes a writer's development as an artist.
(C) Nineteenth-century writers surpass modern writers in their descriptions of wars.
(D) The more personal tragedy writers endure, the more prolific they become.
(E) Historic events become more socially significant when interpreted by a skillful writer.


(from the October 16, 1999 test)

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Correct Answer: B
Explanation: Hemingway is said to remind us that war, revolution, and exile are experiences "important in shaping the art" of writers such as Tolstoy, Stendahl, Flaubert, and Dostoyevsky. He is quoted as saying that "writers are forged [formed] in injustice." Lines 1-10 strongly suggest that Hemingway would agree that "living in troubled times shapes a writer's development as an artist" -- choice (B).