Answer Choices
Passage 2 challenges the primary argument of Passage 1.
Passage 2 advocates an alternative approach to a problem discussed in Passage 1.
Passage 2 provides further evidence to support an idea introduced in Passage 1.
Passage 2 exemplifies an attitude promoted in Passage 1.
Explanation for Question 40 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4
The question 40 says which choice best states the relationship between the two passages. 2 So let's look back in the passages and kind of determine the main ideas, 3 and then we can compare them to each other. So we'll start with passage 4 one. And the first paragraph kind of, 5 you could consider it. The thesis of this passage is that starts in line 6 nine. So it says by this wise prejudice, 7 we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country, 8 who are prompt rashly to hack the aged parents in pieces and put him 9 into the kettle of magicians and hopes that by their poisonous weeds and wild 10 incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution and renovate their father's life. 11 So basically what this is saying is that the whole society is taught to 12 look with horror. So be horrified by people in the country that can 13 quickly advocate for restructuring the government. 14 That's what they're talking about when they say regenerating the parental 15 or the paternal constitution. So this is saying that it's bad 16 to change the government. 17 So if we then go and look in passage two, 18 we see that it says things like every 19 age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases 20 as the ages and generations, which proceeded it, 21 the vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and 22 insulin of all tyrannies. And it also goes on to say that in 23 the last paragraph and as the government is for the ...