Answer Choices
introduce the characters who play a part in the narrator’s story.
list the difficult conditions the narrator endured in childhood.
describe the passion that drives the actions the narrator recounts.
depict the narrator’s aspirations before he met Sempere.
Explanation for Question 2 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8
So this is number two. 2 Um, the main purpose of lines one through 10. 3 So obviously we have to go back to one through 10. We have to 4 read them again, but we also have to read the lines after one through 5 10, just a few of them, just to get an idea of like how 6 one through 10 fits into the rest of the passage, because you can never 7 understand the purpose of something unless you know the context. 8 So let's read those lines through a little bit after that. 9 And then you can try to predict the answer before we actually read the 10 answers that are available to us. Right? So one 11 through 10, what is he actually doing here? He says, 12 even though my only friends were made a paper and ink, or even then 13 my only friends were made a paper ink as squid learn to read and 14 write long before the other children or my school friends saw notch as an 15 incomprehensible pages. 16 I saw light streets and people, whereas the mystery of their hidden science fascinated 17 me. And I saw a NEMA touch, a key with which I can look 18 about this world. Okay. So this entire time he's talking about his passion and 19 his fervor and his love for reading and writing and how it, 20 how it's so different than like other people his age. 21 Right? So he's really, really just kind of describing this passion that he has. 22 And then after that, after lines one through 10, 23 then he goes into the conflict of my father, 24 right? My father didn't like to see books in the house. 25 There was some...