Explanation for Question 10 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 10
So question 10 is paired with question nine. It says which choice provides the 2 best evidence for the answer to the previous question. And the previous question is 3 in the passage when miss Vivi announces that she had seen camels, 4 the student's reactions suggests that they are what and the correct answer for that 5 one is baffled. So let's look in the passage at these lines and 6 see which one proves that the students were baffled. If we look at answer 7 choice, a lines 82 through 84, they say we saw a whole caravan of 8 camels. She looked around the room waiting for us to be amazed and delighted 9 at the thought. So this question or this answer choice is going to be 10 incorrect because all it talks about is Ms. 11 Phoebe's anticipated reaction. It doesn't actually talk about the reaction of the children. 12 So that's why a is incorrect. 13 If you look at answer choice B, it says we all hung there for 14 a minute. Thinking hard until Mavis Davis spoke up. 15 So that directly tells us what the kids did when they heard that she 16 had seen camel. So this is the direct reaction, 17 and it also says that they stopped for a minute. 18 They were thinking hard and that could indicate confusion. 19 So then if we look at answer choice C, it says, 20 she means like the three Kings road to Bethlehem Mavis said, 21 and she folded her hands smugly on her seventh grade desk in the back 22 of the room. That's talking about just one student's reaction to what miss 23 Vivi said about the...