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Instruction:
- In the passage below is accompanied by a number of questions.
- For some questions, you need to think how the passage might be revised to improve the expression of ideas.
- For other questions, you will consider how the passage might be edited to correct errors in sentence structure, usage, or punctuation.
- Some questions will direct you to an underlined portion of a passage.
- Other questions will direct you to a location in a passage or ask you to think about the passage as a whole.
SAT Writing & Language Section Passage
SAT Writing Passage Title: Personal Anthropology
Ethnographers work anywhere from communities in small villages to bustling cities, but 1 its work is always the same: listening to someone else’s story. 2 A subfield of anthropology, ethnography is the study of people and the cultures in which they live. While an objective approach to collecting and sharing information is traditionally encouraged, 3 anthropology professor Ruth Behar believes that integrating her personal experience into her work is not only inevitable but valuable.
Doing so, Behar argues, allows readers to better connect with her work. Born in Cuba in 4 1956, the granddaughter of Eastern European Jewish émigrés. Behar moved with her family to New York in 1962. These early experiences 5 in her younger years generated an interest in how people form identity based on community, eventually leading Behar to pursue a PhD in cultural anthropology at Princeton. After her graduation in 1983, she wrestled with the norms of her chosen field. While many ethnographers 6 pressured the importance of maintaining emotional impartiality during the research process, Behar felt that divorcing personal experience from ethnography was too clinical.
She first tackled this dilemma in her 1993 book Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza’s Story. Based on the four years Behar spent interviewing Esperanza Hernández, a street peddler in the Mexican town of Mexquitic, 7 Hernández felt torn between her Mexican and Indian identities. Behar identified with this tension. 8 Because she maintains an objective tone for most 8 of the book, the final chapter of Translated Woman offers a personal reflection on Behar’s struggle to define her own cultural identity, influenced by 9 Latin America, her birthplace— and the United States.
This chapter garnered a divided critical 10 reception, some anthropologists insisted, that Behar had strayed beyond the bounds of her field, while others lauded her unique approach. Behar addressed this topic again in her next book, The Vulnerable Observer (1996), contending that ethnography should be tackled with a combination of tenderness and toughness. While her technique is unorthodox, Behar finds her work fruitful when she allows her own experience to shape her understanding of the stories she hears. By rejecting an objective approach, she is able to cultivate a personal relationship with her interview subjects, learning about both their identities and her own. She then shares these revelations with her audience. 11
SAT Writing & Language Practice Questions
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 1
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : their
Option C : her
Option D : my
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Option B : their
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 2
At this point, the writer is considering adding the following sentence. Ruth Behar, a Princeton-educated anthropologist, enjoys the process of listening to and interpreting such stories. Should the writer make this addition here?
Option A : Yes, because it provides information essential to the passage.
Option B : Yes, because it introduces the subject of the passage.
Option C : No, because it provides information contradicted later in the passage.
Option D : No, because it interrupts the introduction of the passage.
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Option D : No, because it interrupts the introduction of the passage.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 3
Which choice most effectively states the central idea developed throughout the passage?
Option A : No Change
Option B : some anthropologists believe that a level-headed, detached observation is the best way to approach ethnography.
Option C : some anthropologists believe that information about anthropological subjects should not be catalogued traditionally
Option D : anthropology professor Ruth Behar believes in working directly with people when studying ethnography
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Option A : No Change
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 4
Which choice results in the most effective transition to the information that follows in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : 1956. The granddaughter of Eastern European Jewish émigrés,
Option C : 1956, the granddaughter of Eastern European Jewish émigrés,
Option D : 1956, the granddaughter of Eastern European Jewish émigrés;
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Option A : 1956, the granddaughter of Eastern European Jewish émigrés,
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 5
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : in her young life
Option C : of her youth
Option D : DELETE the underlined portion.
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Option B : DELETE the underlined portion.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 6
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : strained
Option C : forced
Option D : stressed
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Option D : stressed
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 7
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : the book recounts the tensions Hernandez felt
Option C : Behar found it fascinating that Hernandez felt torn
Option D : she recounts the tensions Hernandez felt
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Option B : the book recounts the tensions Hernandez felt
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 8
The writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence. Should the sentence be kept or deleted?
Option A : NO CHANGE
Option B : When
Option C : If
Option D : Although
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Option D : Although
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 9
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : Latin America—her birthplace—
Option C : Latin America—her birthplace
Option D : Latin America; her birthplace;
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Option B : Latin America—her birthplace—
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 10
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : reception some anthropologists insisted
Option C : reception: some anthropologists insisted
Option D : reception: some anthropologists insisted,
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Option C : reception: some anthropologists insisted,
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 11
The writer wants to conclude the passage by emphasizing the value of one’s own perspective in anthropology. Which quotation by Behar most effectively accomplishes this goal?
Option A : According to Behar, “a personal voice, if creatively used, can lead the reader … into [an] enormous sea of social issues.
Option B : She takes this work seriously: Behar considers anthropology “the most fascinating, bizarre … and necessary form of witnessing left to us” today
Option C : As Behar says, “Emotion has only recently gotten a foot inside the academy and we still don’t know whether we want to give it a seminar room, a lecture hall, or just a closet we can air out now and then.”
Option D : According to Behar, “It is far from easy to think up interesting ways to locate one’s self in one’s text.”
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Option A : According to Behar, “a personal voice, if creatively used, can lead the reader … into [an] enormous sea of social issues.
