Answer Choices
were witnessing the flight of minority populations to the suburbs.
had begun to lose their manufacturing sectors.
had a traditional four-zone structure.
were already experiencing demographic inversion.
Explanation for Question 16 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4
Question 16 says the passage implies that American cities in 1974 were 2 characterized as what? So let's look back in the passage and see what the 3 author says about American cities. In 1974, 4 we can find evidence for this in starting in line 66, 5 and then it goes all the way through line 71. So let's read through 6 what they have to say here. So as he was right about the urban 7 America of 1974, virtually every city in the country, 8 how to downtown, where the commercial life of the metropolis was conducted, 9 it had a factory district just beyond it had districts of working class residences, 10 just beyond that. And it had a presidential suburbs for the wealthy and the 11 upper middle class at the far end of the continuum. 12 So basically all these lines are outlining is the fact that 13 cities were divided into different areas with different functions. 14 You have downtown with commercial life, 15 you had factory districts, you had working class residences, 16 and then you had the residential suburbs for the more wealthy people. 17 So let's look at the answer choices and see which one most directly indicates 18 this kind of stratification. 19 So if we start by looking at answer choice, 20 a, it says that American cities in 1974, 21 witnessing the flight of minority populations to the suburbs. 22 So in the lines that 23 we just read it, doesn't say it doesn't discuss minority populations being in the 24 suburbs directly. It just says that the people who lived in those su...