Explanation for Question 7 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question seven says the passage best supports, 2 which characterization of Alexandra Berkson and her attention to the details of the family 3 farm. So let's look in the passage at what the narrator has to say 4 about Alexandra Berkson. So the description first starts in line 35. 5 It says before Alexandra was 12 years old, 6 she had begun to be a help to him, him being John Berkson, 7 her father, and actually grew older. 8 He had come to depend more and more upon her resourcefulness and good judgment. 9 So that's going to be the first key here to answering this 10 question. It describes her as resourceful and with good judgment, 11 the passage goes on to say it was Alexandra who read the papers and 12 follow the markets. And who learned by the mistakes of their neighbors. 13 It was Alexander who could always tell what it had cost to fatten each 14 deer and who could guess the weight of a Hawk before it went on 15 the scales closer than John Berkson himself. 16 So all this is saying is that she has a general intelligence and kind 17 of understanding of what goes along with running the farm. 18 You can see here that it says she could always tell about what it 19 had cost, if that in each steer, oops, 20 and who could guess the weight of the hog before it went on the 21 scale. So she has an uncanny way of knowing what's going on. 22 So let's look at the answer choices here and see which one best matches 23 that. 24 So if we start with answer choice a, it says she values others o...