Answer Choices
The narrator emphasizes Silas’s former obsession with wealth by depicting his gold as requiring certain behaviors on his part.
The narrator underscores Silas’s former greed by describing his gold as seeming to reproduce on its own.
The narrator hints at Silas’s former antisocial attitude by contrasting his present behavior toward his neighbors with his past behavior toward them.
The narrator demonstrates Silas’s former lack of self-awareness by implying that he is unable to recall life before Eppie.
Explanation for Question 3 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
Question three asks which statement best describes the technique the narrator uses to represent 2 Silas's character before he adopted that beam. 3 So if we look back in the passage here, we only really find information 4 about Silas's character before epi and the first paragraph. 5 And so really you find it throughout the whole thing, 6 but we're just going to look at a couple pieces of it. So we're 7 going to look at this first part. It says, unlike the gold, 8 which needed nothing and must be worshiped and close lock to solitude, 9 which was hidden away from the daylight was deaf to the song of birds 10 and started to know human tone. So we can see here, 11 oops, wrong tool. We can see that this part describes him before adopting 12 epi. We get that information here. He adopted epi after he lost all of 13 his gold. So that first little piece describes his state 14 before epi. 15 We also have the gold had kept his thoughts in an ever repeating circle 16 leading to nothing beyond itself. So that is another reference to his 17 character before epi and then everything after that is kind of just how epi 18 affected him. So we'll focus mainly on those two things that I have bracketed 19 there. So it says, unlike the gold, which needed nothing and must be worshiped 20 in close locked solitude. So the gold had to be worshiped is important here. 21 And it's also important that it kept his thoughts in an ever repeating circle. 22 So if you look back at the answer choices here, addres...