[Video] Q42: Which choice most effectively sets up the examples that follow?

Explanation for Question 42 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

So now number 42 asks us, which of the following most effectively sets up 2 the following example. And in our following example, 3 we see the Hermitage court chamber. Harold Katz includes an aristocratic 4 tilt, right? So aristocratic till a feline ears, 5 as well as, um, you know, 6 they have a Scarlet gold Royal court dress. 7 So they appear to be very high class, right? Aristocratic, 8 star, Scarlet gold, Royal court. 9 Those are all high class words, right? So we look at what a says. 10 It says presenting the cats as noble noteworthy, 11 individuals of respect. And that should make sense, 12 right? A should, should sound pretty good because we saw the words aristocratic and 13 Royal in the following sentence. So a appears to be on topic. 14 Now B says managing to capture unique characteristics of each cat. 15 Now the characteristics that were just described are not very cat-like right there. 16 They're more like people who have wealth and who have respect. 17 Those are those characteristics. So we're not really talking about characteristics of each cat. 18 Now C says commenting on absurdity of dressing up cats and Royal robes. 19 So sure we dress up cats and Royal robes, 20 but where we commenting on the absurdity of that, 21 not really right to say that we're commenting on the absurdity of it means 22 that people in real life were actually dressing up cats and Royal clothing. 23 And then that art was kind of to make fun of that, 24 but that wasn't the case here. And no one was really doing that to 25 the cats. They were simply depicting them this way. 26 And so we're not doing any kind of commenting on absurdity here. 27 And then finally C says, indicating the cats were very talented and mouse catchers. 28 We didn't see anything about mouse catchers, right? 29 Nothing about mouse catchers. And so our best answer then is answer choice a.