Answer Choices
Lines 41-45 (“Contending . . . virtue”)
Lines 45-47 (“truth . . . practice”)
Lines 65-66 (“If so . . . rest”)
Lines 72-78 (“Consider . . . happiness”)
Explanation for Question 37 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3
Question 37 says which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the 2 previous question. So in an earlier video, 3 we determined that the correct answer to question 36 is that in passage two, 4 the author claims that freedoms granted by societies leaders have answer choice, 5 a privileged one gender over the other. 6 So let's look at the lines of evidence given to us as answer choices 7 in question 37 and see which one best supports this idea. 8 So we're looking for two aspects in these lines of evidence. 9 We're looking for a reference to society's leaders, 10 and we're looking for the privilege of one gender over another. 11 So we can start with answer choice a lines 41 through 45. 12 It says contending for the rights of women. 13 My main argument is built on this simple principle that if she be not 14 prepared by education to become the companion of man, 15 she will stop the progress of knowledge and virtue. 16 So for answer choice, a, we might be able to determine that 17 one gender is privileged over another in terms of education, 18 but it's not having any reference to freedoms granted by societies leaders or anything 19 like that. You may be able to infer that education 20 is a freedom granted by societies leaders, 21 but that would be a little bit too indirect here. 22 So we're looking for direct evidence of this idea 23 or of freedoms granted. So answer choice a would not provide that. 24 And then if you look at answer choice B, it says for truth must 25 b...