Explanation for Question 32 From the Reading Section on the 2021 March Sat
All right, moving on to our fourth passage here of the March, 2021 sat exam, 2 looking at question 32, we're being asked why the author considers the campaign 3 of the abolitionists to be strange as in line two. 4 So let's go back and see what the context of this use of the 5 word strange actually was. Um, 6 in this case, the author is saying that she calls it a strange contest 7 in which the abolitionists are engaged. Um, 8 and they say that here we meet time. 9 After time newspapers are printed speeches delivered. 10 So they're kind of emphasizing how long this struggle, 11 how long this kind of public debate is taking place for. 12 Um, and then comparing that to the fact that these self-evident propositions are 13 most easily understood because they need no proof. 14 So there's sort of this contrast emerging where the, 15 the question being asked is like, why is it taking so long for this 16 debate to be settled for slavery to be fully rejected when it's really 17 concerning matters of self-evident proposition? 18 So things that don't even need proof they're fundamentally understood. 19 So there's a, there's a severe contrast here between this idea of this 20 struggle taking so much time to resolve, 21 and also how clear at the actual answer is. 22 So that's why this author is referring it to it as a strange contest. 23 They're saying, why is it taking so long to prove this, 24 this matter when in reality, it shouldn't need any proof. 25 So our answer choices choice a says...