[Video] Q39: Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

Answer Choices

  • Lines 1-4 (“To avoid . . . state”)

  • Lines 7-9 (“he should . . . solicitude”)

  • Lines 27-29 (“It is . . . perfection”)

  • Lines 34-38 (“The municipal . . . community”)

Explanation for Question 39 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question 39 says which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the 2 previous question. So let's look at the previous question. 3 It would be 38. It says which choice best describes how Burke would most 4 likely have reacted to pain's remark and the final paragraph of passage two. 5 And the correct answer here is going to be answered choice D so some 6 things to remember here is that pain's remarks in paragraph two are saying that 7 the living should be free to change the government to fit their needs at 8 the time. And so Burke meets that with this approval because changing conditions 9 are insufficient justification for changing the form of government. 10 So we're looking for two aspects in the evidence provided in question 11 39, we're looking for disapproval of the fact that people should 12 be able to change the government as well. And we're looking for the reason 13 for that being that changing conditions are insufficient justification for changing the government. 14 So let's look back into the lines of evidence provided in 15 39 to see which one best supports that answer. 16 So if you look at answer choice a, it says it starts in lines 17 one through four, it says to avoid the evils of inconstancy and versatility 18 10,000 times worse than those of obstinacy. 19 And the blind is prejudice. We have consecrated the state. 20 So this is going to be incorrect because 21 it doesn't say anything about changing the form of government and says, 22 we have consecrat...

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