Explanation for Question 6 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question six says the narrator most clearly indicates the John Berkson in regards his 2 son as well. So let's look into the passage here and see what John 3 Berkson has to say about his sons. 4 We can see starting in line 39, that he references his son saying his 5 boys were willing enough to work. But when he talked with them, 6 they usually irritated him. And he also goes on to say, 7 starting in line 47, that Lou and Oscar, 8 which we can assume are two of his sons were industrious, 9 but he could never teach them to use their heads about their work. 10 So the two things that we can get from this are that they're hardworking, 11 so willing enough to work hardworking. 12 And the other thing that we can get from this is that if 13 he could never teach them to use their heads about their work, 14 they probably weren't smart enough. 15 So 16 weren't smart enough. 17 So let's look at the answer choices here and see which one might have 18 those two elements about John Berkson describing his sons. 19 So if you look at answer choice a, it says hardworking, 20 but not smart enough to manage the farm. This one's pretty right on the 21 money, right? We got that hardworking from the idea that they were willing enough 22 to work, and they're not smart enough to manage the farm with the fact 23 that he's saying he couldn't teach them to use their heads. And also you 24 can find other examples in the passage of where he says that his daughter, 25 Alexandra is actually smarter than his s...