Sat Writing And Language Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. Some recipes don't fare well in the twenty-first century (one club member called her 1800s gingerbread a "molasses-laden brick" ), while others 42 had worked just fine.
2. Which choice most clearly ends the passage with a restatement of writer's primary claim? (LOOK AT QUESTION FOR CHOICES)
3. Nonetheless, those who made and sold these alleged medicines were not shy about making flagrant claims.
4. What is the best way to prepare for the Writing section?
5. As the United States expanded in the 18th and 19th centuries, so did the reach of patent medicines ..... portions of iffy benefit that were sold to people with almost any ailment (or none at all) ..... which spread westward with settlers.
6. With 30 percent of United States workers not getting enough sleep at night, according to the Wall Street Journal, US companies 1 lose a yearly sum of $ 63.2 billion annually due to the drop in employee productivity resulting from sleep deprivation.
7. Which choice most effectively sets up the examples given at the end of the sentence?
8. Late last autumn, Giuseppe Ferrua stood, on the hillside he farms overlooking Italy's Serchio River valley, a landscape of low mountains dotted 24 with vineyards.
9. Librarians were happy to show the Szathmary collection to people who were able to visit the library, 37 so the manuscripts, too delicate to be checked out to library patrons, remained largely unexplored.
10. Writing and Language Question #41
11. It is not the case, therefore, that there are no traces of patent medicines around today.
12. Writing and Language Question #7
13. Writing and Language Question #24
14. Writing and Language Question #27
15. As long as companies continue to demand long hours from 4 workers, and managers should champion napping as a means to keep employees happy, healthy, and functional.
16. Writing and Language Question #1
17. Writing and Language Question #25
18. However, patent medicines were often toxic or at least shaky.
19. #12. Which choice most accurately and effectively represents the information in the graph?
20. Given the role that honeybees play in agriculture, the impact of this loss of hives on fruit, vegetable, seed, and nut crops 19 is not to be scoffed at.
21. Patent medicines were not necessarily ineffective. In fact, they often did work as promised, frequently because of the habitation of drugs that are now illegal or of high amounts of alcohol.
22. The importance of bees 13 highlights the potentially disastrous affects of an emerging, unexplained crisis:entire colonies of honeybees are dying off without warning.
23. 35 Because of the astonishing size and range of Szathmary's donation to the University of Iowa, making this cornucopia of information available to readers was a challenge.
24. Writing and Language Question #38
25. Writing and Language Question #36
26. An analogy might be oxygen. We certainly need oxygen to live, but it is numerous in the atmosphere, and there is no need for anyone to take oxygen supplements. Still, the PADOK (A vitamin, mineral, and herb trade is thriving, avoiding regulation in the United States by marketing its products as "nutritional supplements" rather than "medicines."
27. Writing and Language Question #14
28. #19:(Hint:What is the plural possessive pronoun?)
29. How many questions are on the Writing and Language section of the SAT?
30. The answer to #15 is:
31. Writing and Language Question #26
32. Writing and Language Question #33
33. Eventually, patent medicines fell out of favor, especially when particular medicines and their makers were debunked by muckraking journalists.
34. The 29 almanacs editor, Janice Stillman, says, "That information is of value to our readers who practice these traditional methods-and claim great success."
35. Writing and Language Question #20
36. These pitches often drew on the same things that work today, such as the power of exotic locations and ancient lore.
37. Writing and Language Question #42
38. Writing and Language Question #43
39. Writing and Language Question #19
40. Writing and Language Question #10
41. Writing and Language Question #15
42. How much time do you have to complete this section?
43. Writing and Language Question #9
44. Writing and Language Question #35
45. Charlatans with no formal medical training nonetheless called themselves doctors and often stigmatized their portions with names of Native American tribes or nations.
46. In another instance of library outreach, a competition at the 2013 Iowa State Fair, contestants baked desserts in three categories-43 almond cheesecake, summer mince pie, and Marlborough pie-using recipes from the Szathmary collection.
47. The writer wants to insert this sentence into the paragraph:Upon completion, I planned on pursuing a doctoral degree, which is required for most professor jobs, until I realized I had viewed teaching at the college level through rose-colored glasses.Where should the sentence be placed?
48. Writing and Language Question #44
49. Writing and Language Question #6
50. In light of the benefits not only to employees' efficiency 10 and again to their health and sense of well-being, these executives' enthusiasm is not surprising.
51. The stereotypical image we have of patent medicines is of a covered wagon pulling up in a town, a crowd assembling and a greasy sales pitch exposing the virtues of medicine.
52. What is the purpose of the SAT Writing and Language section?
53. What should you know about homophones for the SAT?
54. #18:(Hint:Select the correct verb tense.)
55. Current mainstream agriculture does not factor the Moon into 31 their practices, so the concept might seem quaint or irrational.
56. What type of question is No. 5?
57. And even those who never set foot in a supplement store no doubt come across ruins of patent medicines in everyday life.
58. The hours the average American 3 spend working have increased dramatically since the 1970s, making it hard for many workers to get a good night's sleep.
59. Writing and Language Question #30
60. What is the similarity between the new version of SAT Writing and ACT English?