Explanation for Questions 37, 38 From the Reading Section on the 2020 March Sat
Okay, so 37 37, sorry, 2 with 37 38. We're going to them together because there were only three questions. 3 Um, and so number 37 says in the passage, 4 which means you will find inside the passage, 5 weren't characterized as Americans in the post revolutionary war, 6 war, period, as what? Right. 7 How does he characterize that? Remember, remember the evidence for this was over here 8 when he says that? No, 9 yes. They're well educated, right? But even though they're more informed 10 than many other countries in the literature, they're superficial, 11 they have a superficial knowledge of mankind of human nature. They're ignorant and they're 12 convinced of the necessity necessity of government, 13 but they don't understand it's neutral, 14 it's origin. And here's the, 15 here's the main piece of evidence here. 16 They're naive. They think that as soon as they went in independence, 17 their home, great, they're going to have a great life. 18 They're going to have a great country without having to do any other work. 19 They generally suppose that there was little to do, but to shake off England 20 and then get rid of the word king and then, 21 and then they're done. So they're too optimistic. 22 You're too naive. So the evidence is lines 33 23 through 35 or 36 again. 24 Right, right here, enter the working. Um, 25 so you answered this before you answered this and, and we see that this 26 matches with the words naive, idealistic, 27 or too optimistic or too naive. And so your answer is going to be 28 a, for 37 38.