[Video] Q46: Where does the author indicate the medieval volcanic eruption most probably was located?

Explanation for Question 46 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question 46 has, where does the author indicate the middle of a volcanic eruption 2 was probably most probably located. So this is going to come directly from text 3 evidence in the passage. So let's look at what the passage has 4 to say about where it's located. First of all, 5 we know from this paragraph that the volcano 6 that they identified was in Indonesia. 7 So that is one element of the answer choice Indonesia's 8 Samalas. And then if we look at what they say here, 9 starting in line 61, it says it's not a total surprise that 10 an Indonesian volcano might be the source of the eruption. 11 Miller says an Ecuadorian eruption is more consistent with the apparent climate 12 impacts. So the two aspects of this answer choice that we're looking for are 13 being oops, wrong thing are being in Indonesia. 14 And then it also says an equatorial eruption. 15 So that just means it's at the equator. 16 So in Indonesia, near the equator, 17 if we look at the answer choices here, 18 we have the correct answer being a, 19 we can't eliminate B and C because neither of those are near the equator. 20 Now they do say something about being near the equator in Ecuador with 21 the volcano Keala Totowa. 22 But the passage also goes on to say, 23 but when Levine's team examined shards of volcanic glass from this volcano, 24 they found that they didn't match the chemical composition of the glass found in 25 polar ice cores. Whereas the sommeliers glass was a much closer match that 26 suggests that the, 27 oh, sorry, are you going to see the whole time I was doing that? 28 Um, that suggests that the volcano with the equator 29 in Ecuador would probably not be a likely culprit. 30 And it would most probably be located in Indonesia.