Explanation for Question 9 From the Reading Section on the 2017 April Sat
All right. Question nine asks us which lands from the passage most strongly suggest 2 that India has experienced social change. 3 Um, so let's take a look at the choices that we're given. 4 Um, as we go through, we'll want to make note of any, 5 um, references the author makes to social change, 6 um, or generally the evolving of these different behaviors and 7 traditions. So let's take a look. 8 Um, our first answer choice is lines 36 to 37, 9 um, which we can see here, 10 36, 37. Um, 11 there was no need. She said, oh really? 12 This is too much. She assisted with the air of someone who's just received 13 the diamond. So this is answer choice. 14 A, this is describing an action that maybe reflect some of the older 15 traditions, but there is no reference to any kind of change here. 16 So that's why we can eliminate answer choice, a choice B as lines 48 17 to 51, um, 18 that would be here. 19 Um, they both stoop gently, 20 um, to touch the uncles feed and the aunt and mother's feet are traditional 21 greeting and a mark of obedience towards one's elders. 22 Um, this kind of speaks to a tradition, 23 um, but it doesn't speak to the how this tradition has changed necessarily. 24 So that's why, again, this isn't as good of an answer choice as we 25 should see later on in the passage. Um, 26 answer choice C 54 to 57, 27 um, says this was half a token gesture towards modesty and half towards the 28 new modern India, um, 29 uh, secular India, free of ritual and religion. 30 This is...