[Video] Q7: The main purpose of the first paragraph is to

Answer Choices

  • describe a culture.

  • criticize a tradition.

  • question a suggestion.

  • analyze a reaction.

Explanation for Question 7 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 1

Okay. So now we're in the first paragraph here. 2 Remember the first paragraph we were kind of like thrown into the middle of 3 the action. And it was a paragraph where we were being told, 4 um, kind of what the reaction of the mom of Naomi was 5 to the question that Kira had asked. 6 Right. So it's kind of analyzing the reaction that chai had, 7 uh, was that it had he followed form, 8 would she have been more receptive? Right. So that's, 9 what's happening here. We're analyzing the reaction to asking to get married. 10 Um, and so that's exactly what D is doing. We're analyzing reaction or right 11 in the middle of the, uh, action here in the story. 12 It's not like we're starting off by describing the setting of the story or 13 anything like that. We're actually analyzing what has happened in terms of the reaction 14 that the mom had to the question. Um, 15 so that's the answer for that one?

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