Answer Choices
less than Sempere expects him to pay for the books.
nothing, because Sempere won’t take his money.
the money he makes selling sweets to the other children.
much less for the books than they are worth.
Explanation for Question 7 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8
Okay. So we're now on number seven and it says that the indicator, 2 sorry, the narrator indicates that he pays some pair. 3 What? So this is a question where, 4 um, where, because it says indicates that means that it is definitely in the 5 passage and that you need to go find evidence in order to answer the 6 question. You do not want to answer this question from memory. 7 The word indicates, indicates that you should go back. 8 Um, so let's find the part in the story where the narrator, 9 um, talks about some pair paying the bookstore, 10 owner something, and we're not going to read the answer choices. 11 We're going to predict the answer by looking at the evidence. 12 So I think it's over here, 13 right? This is when the guy enters the bookshop and it says that, 14 um, the bookseller would, and we're starting over here. 15 The books that seller would let me sit in a chair in a corner 16 and read any book. 17 I like to my heart's content. You hardly ever allowed me to pay for 18 the books he plays in my hands. So he hardly ever paid for them 19 because he wasn't allowed to. But when he wasn't looking, 20 I would leave the coins. I've managed to collect on the counter before I 21 left. So yes, the narrator says that some pair does pay 22 for the books, but he doesn't pay the actual cost of the books. 23 Right. He's just putting some coins on the counter. 24 That doesn't mean that he's actually paying, um, 25 the amount they're worth. And so that's something to think about. 2...