[Video] Q7: No change or it or them or this movement scrutiny, siqueiros painted the final section of the mural,

Explanation for Question 7 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Now for number seven, we're trying to choose if we should say this it 2 them or this movement. Right? 3 So let's read the sentence as it is artists associated with this 4 began to rediscover and promote the work of Mexican muralists specifically. 5 Siqueiros. Now, if you just read that sentence, 6 you might wonder to yourself, okay, what are they associated with? 7 Right. It just says artists are associated with something. 8 And then they began to rediscover works with Mexican muralists, 9 but it never tells us in the sentence what they were associated with. 10 Um, and we kind of need to look above that sentence to see what 11 they're associated with. It talks about social and civil rights movements, 12 right? So we've got social and civil rights movements are raising awareness. 13 So the artists are actually associated with these movements. 14 And it's important that we say so because the sentence on its own, 15 without any context is difficult to understand, 16 because we don't know what people are associated with. 17 Um, so our answer to seven has to be D because we were missing 18 this information and we needed it to say this movement so that we knew 19 what they were associated with. Um, 20 and so C you could eliminate C because of them is a plural thing, 21 and it's only, you know, a singular movement, 22 right? And it's in this, 23 they're both singular, but still, 24 they don't tell us what we are associated with or what the artists are 25 associated with. We only get that specific info from answer choice D.