Answer Choices
physical vulnerability and Silas’s emotional fragility.
expanding awareness and Silas’s increasing engagement with life.
boundless energy and Silas’s insatiable desire for wealth.
physical growth and Silas’s painful perception of his own mortality.
Explanation for Question 8 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
Question eight asks and describing the relationship between epi and Silas. 2 The narrator draws a connection between MPS and Silas as well. 3 So we need to look back at somewhere in the passage where they addressed 4 the very like conceptual or abstract connection 5 between their two relationships. Looking at these answer choices here versus that second paragraph. 6 That's more about like physical interaction between the two. 7 So the place that we find that here is in the second to last 8 paragraph, it says as the child mind was growing into knowledge, 9 his memory silence, his memory, or his mind was growing into memory as her 10 life unfolded his soul long stupefied in a cold narrow prison was unfolding 11 to and trembling gradually into full consciousness. 12 So basically what this is saying at his as epi is mind 13 is gaining knowledge. As she's getting older, Silas, 14 his soul is gradually trembling into full consciousness. 15 So his soul is being woken up by epi 16 is increasing like knowledge for 17 lack of a better word. So if you look at the answer choices here, 18 we can just go through each of them, answer choice a says, 19 epi is physical Verner vulnerability, and Silas's emotional fragility. 20 So answer choice a is going to be incorrect. 21 Neither of these character traits are ever attributed to either of those characters. 22 Epi is never described as physically vulnerable, and Silas is never described as emotionally 23 fragile. So that would be wrong. If we ...