Answer Choices
It presents the particular moment at which Silas realized that Eppie was changing him.
It highlights Silas’s love for Eppie by depicting the sacrifices that he makes for her.
It illustrates the effect that Eppie has on Silas by describing the interaction between them.
It reveals a significant alteration in the relationship between Silas and Eppie.
Explanation for Question 7 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
Question seven asks what function does the second paragraph in line 33, 52 serve 2 in the passage as a whole. So we can look back up at this 3 paragraph. It's relatively long. We're not going to read through the whole thing, 4 but we can see it in just different parts of this. 5 That basically what this paragraph is doing is describing the 6 relationship between Silas and epi in nature. 7 Right? So when the sunshine grew strong and lasting, 8 so the buttercups were thick and Meadows, Silas might be seen in the sunny, 9 mid day or in the late afternoon when the shadows were lengthening, 10 carrying epi beyond the stone pits, to where the flowers grew, 11 he would sit down, she would toddle off to pluck flowers, 12 and you can see that Silas learned to please her by making signs 13 of hushed stillness. And basically it's just describing like their interaction 14 in nature, like this, kid's going out to play her. 15 Dad's taking her things like that. And you can see at the end here 16 kind of the effect that this has on him. So I let's begin to 17 look for the ones familiar herbs, again, as the leaves with their unchanged outline 18 and markings lay on his Palm, there was a sense of crowding remembrances from 19 which he turned away, timidly taking refuge in MPS, 20 little world that lay lightly on his feeble spear, 21 his enfeebled spirit. So basically the fact that this whole 22 interaction in nature is like having this 23 effect on him. So if we look at the answer choices her...