Explanation for Question 32 From the Reading Section on the 2018 March Sat
Hey guys. So question 32 asks us one central idea of the passage is 2 that Americans blink. So there's entire passage is really about Charles Dickens 3 view of Americans from his experiences there. 4 And he goes from talking about some things he believes about the general nature 5 of Americans that seem more positive to a critique on 6 Americans, um, systems of government in regards to American 7 perspectives and how that has perhaps sullied the American, 8 um, government by putting in certain people due to American 9 feelings. So what we want to do from that is run through these answer 10 choices and figure out which of these can we cross off based on what 11 we've read here, because three of these are going to be completely not in 12 the text. So we know evidence for this. And one of these is going 13 to have strong evidence based on the text at hand. 14 So let's start at the bottom and move our way up. Option D says 15 that one central idea, the passage is that Americans suspiciousness of their politicians has 16 undermined the government and contributed to widespread instability. 17 Now, what the what's wrong with this answer choice right here is that there's 18 no point in here where Charles Dickens says that there's 19 widespread instability or an undermine the government within, 20 uh, within America. He does not go that far as to say that 21 he instead says that, um, 22 online's around lines 39 by repelling worthy men from your legislative assemblies. 23 It is bred up...