Answer Choices
He lacked affection for the narrator.
He disliked any unnecessary use of money.
He would not have approved of Sempere’s gift.
He objected to the writings of Charles Dickens.
Lines 24-27 (“My father . . . children”)
Lines 35-37 (“The bookseller . . . content”)
Lines 37-38 (“He hardly . . . hands”)
Lines 59-61 (“That afternoon . . . see it”)
Explanation for Questions 3, 4 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8
Okay. So now we're going to do questions three and four together, 2 because guess what? Um, 3 three and four are what I call a buy one, 4 get one free question package. 5 Um, so basically the evidence is found in question four, 6 but that evidence actually helps you get the answer to question three. 7 So question three is the answer and question four is the evidence, 8 which means we're going to end up reading the stem of question three, 9 then finding the answer to question four, by finding the evidence and then using 10 that evidence to actually answer question three. So we kind of go back and 11 forth between answering the two questions. Technically you answer question four before you answer 12 question three. So let's see what's going on here. 13 It says with which of the following statements about this, 14 about his father, would the narrator most likely agree? 15 So we can kind of read the answers a little bit, 16 just to kind of understand what we're looking for here. 17 Um, you can make your best guess, and then you want to actually find 18 the evidence before you actually circle anything. So what do you think the narrator 19 would think about his father? Um, I mean, 20 before even reading these statements, I already know that the narrator is not too 21 crazy about his father. Cause his father doesn't like the fact that he likes 22 to read and you have to hide this aspect from him. 23 So ed, is he, does he lack affection for the narrator? 24 I wouldn't say he lacks af...