Explanation for Question 3 From the Writing Section on the 2020 March Sat
Now question number three asks us which choice provides the most appropriate context for 2 the discussion that follows. And the best answer here is going to be D 3 drawn by the promise of farming on their own land, 4 rather than sharecropping for a landlord exit. 5 Esther's founded dozens of communities in the west, 6 in the 1870s in the 1880s. Right? 7 So in order to land on the answer choice, D we need to look 8 after this line, right? Because it says the, 9 um, information that follows in the passage. 10 So let's look at what follows, right? They talk about a popular destination being 11 Kansas. We talk about one settlement called Nicodemus in 12 Western Kansas. Um, 13 and then we go on to talk more about that settlement, 14 right? So we're really talking about a settlement in Kansas, 15 and we should know that Kansas is in the Western United States, 16 right? So that's why D is D is correct, 17 because D really talks about, um, founding their own communities, 18 founding their own settlements in the Western United States. 19 And here's a date right? 1877, 20 which is in the 1870s in the 1880s. 21 And so now we can think about why a, 22 B and C you're going to be wrong. Right? If we look at a, 23 it says that we're talking about the length of time of travel, 24 right. Days and even weeks, and the dangers. 25 And we're not really talking about travel here. We're specifically talking about these new 26 communities. Now B talks about settlers from Kentucky, 27 uh, Tennessee a...