SAT Sample Questions & Answers

According to the expression. One possible value of x could be...

If q ? 0 and q = q - 4, what's the value of q?

In the diagram above, lines EF and GH are parallel, and line AB is perpendicular to lines EF and GH.

What is the length of line AB?

The radius of the outer circle shown above is 1.2 times greater than the radius of the inner circle.

What is the area of the shaded region?

Jack has b blueberries. He uses 30 percent of the blueberries to make muffins, each ofwhich requires m blueberries. He uses the rest of the blueberries to make pies, each pie ofwhich requires p blueberries.

Which of the following describes the number of blueberry pies Jack can make?

Which is greater?

Sir Giles’s irritating reserve, not even excused by a word of apology, reached the limits of his endurance. He respectfully protested. 'I regret to find, sir,' he said, 'that I have lost my place in my employer’s estimation. The man to whom you confide the superintendence of your clerks and the transaction of your business has, I venture to think, some claim (under the present circumstances) to be trusted.' The banker was now offended on his side.

'II readily admit your claim," he answered, 'when you are sitting at your desk in my office. But, even in these days of strikes, co-operations, and bank holidays, an employer has one privilege left - he has not ceased to be a Man, and he has not forfeited a man’s right to keep his own secrets. I fail to see anything in my conduct which has given you just reason to complain.'

Dennis, rebuked, made his bow in silence, and withdrew.

Did these acts of humility mean that he submitted? They meant exactly the contrary. He had made up his mind that Sir Giles Mountjoy’s motives should, sooner or later, cease to be mysteries to Sir Giles Mountjoy’s clerk.

Which selection identifies the device exemplified with 'Did these acts of humility mean that he submitted?' last paragraph?

Four copy machines make 240 total copies in three minutes. How long will it take five copy machines to make the same number ofcopies?

The following two passages deal with the political movements working for the woman’s vote in America.

Passage 1

The first organized assertion ofwoman’s rights in the United States was made at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848. The convention, though, had little immediate impact because of the national issues that would soon embroil the country. The contentious debates involving slavery and state’s rights that preceded the Civil War soon took center stage in national debates. Thus woman’s rights issues would have to wait until the war and its antecedent problems had been addressed before they would be addressed.

In 1869, two organizations were formed that would play important roles in securing the woman’s right to vote. The first was the American Woman’s Suffrage Association (AWSA). Leaving federal and constitutional issues aside, the AWSA focused their attention on state-level politics. They also restricted their ambitions to securing the woman’s vote and downplayed discussion ofwomen’s full equality. Taking a different track, the National Woman’s Suffrage Association (NWSA), led by Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony, believed that the only way to assure the long-term security of the woman’s vote was to ground it in the constitution. The NWSA challenged the exclusion ofwoman from the Fifteenth Amendment, the amendment that extended the vote to African-American men. Furthermore, the NWSA linked the fight for suffrage with other inequalities faced by woman, such as marriage laws, which greatly disadvantaged women.

By the late 1880s the differences that separated the two organizations had receded in importance as the women’s movement had become a substantial and broad-based political force in the country. In 1890, the two organizations joined forces under the title of the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The NAWSA would go on to play a vital role in the further fight to achieve the woman’s vote.

Passage 2

In 1920, when Tennessee became the thirty-eighth state to approve the constitutional amendment securing the woman’s right to vote, woman’s suffrage became enshrined in the constitution. But woman’s suffrage did not happen in one fell swoop. The success of the woman’s suffrage movement was the story of a number of partial victories that led to the explicit endorsement of the woman’s right to vote in the constitution.

As early as the 1870s and 1880s, women had begun to win the right to vote in local affairs such as municipal elections, school board elections, or prohibition measures. These “partial suffrages’ demonstrated that women could in fact responsibly and reasonably participate in a representative democracy (at least as voters). Once such successes were achieved and maintained over a period oftime, restricting the full voting rights of woman became more and more suspect. If women were helping decide who was on the local school board, why should they not also have a voice in deciding who was president of the country? Such questions became more difficult for non-suffragists to answer, and thus the logic of restricting the woman’s vote began to crumble.

According to the first passage, the National Woman’s Suffrage Association focused their efforts on: