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Reading Test
65 M I NU TES, 5 2 QUESTIONS
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading
each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or
implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or
graph).
Questions 1-10 are based on the following plenipotentiaries. It was by far the most splendid and
.......................................................................................................................................................................................................
passage. important assembly ever convoked to discuss and
This passage is adapted from William Maxwell, The Folded
30 determine the affairs of Europe. The Emperor of
Leaf. ©1959 by William Maxwell. Originally published Russia, the King of Prussia, the Kings of Bavaria,
in 1945. Denmark, and Wurttemberg, all were present in
person at the court of the Emperor Francis I in the
The Alcazar Restaurant was on Sheridan Road Austrian capital. When Lymie put down his fork and
near Devon Avenue. It was long and narrow, with 35 began to count them off, one by one, on the fingers
tables for two along the walls and tables for four of his left hand, the waitress, whose name was Irma,
Line down the middle. The decoration was art moderne, thought he was through eating and tried to take his
5 except for the series of murals depicting the four plate away. He stopped her. Prince Metternich (his
seasons, and the sick ferns in the front window. right thumb) presided over the Congress, and
Lymie sat down at the second table from the cash 40 Prince Talleyrand (the index finger) represented
register, and ordered his dinner. The history book, France.
which he propped against the catsup and the glass A party of four, two men and two women, came
10 sugar bowl, had been used by others before him. into the restaurant, all talking at once, and took
Blank pages front and back were filled in with maps, possession of the center table nearest Lymie.
drawings, dates, comic cartoons, and organs of the 45 The women had shingled hair and short tight skirts
body; also with names and messages no longer clear which exposed the underside of their knees when
and never absolutely legible. On nearly every other they sat down. One of the women had the face of a
15 page there was some marginal notation, either in ink young boy but disguised by one trick or another
or in very hard pencil. And unless someone had (rouge, lipstick, powder, wet bangs plastered against
upset a glass of water, the marks on page 177 were 50 the high forehead, and a pair of long pendent
from tears. earrings) to look like a woman of thirty-five, which
While Lymie read about the Peace of Paris, signed as a matter of fact she was. The men were older. They
20 on the thirtieth of May, 1814, between France and laughed more than there seemed any occasion for,
the Allied powers, his right hand managed again and while they were deciding between soup and shrimp
again to bring food up to his mouth. Sometimes he 55 cocktail, and their laughter was too loud. But it was
chewed, sometimes he swallowed whole the food that the women’s voices, the terrible not quite sober pitch
he had no idea he was eating. The Congress of of the women’s voices which caused Lymie to skim
25 Vienna met, with some allowance for delays, early in over two whole pages without knowing what was on
November of the same year, and all the powers them. Fortunately he realized this and went back.
engaged in the war on either side sent 60 Otherwise he might never have known about the
Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 2 CO NTI N U E
Test 5
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Make time to take the practice test.
It’s one of the best ways to get ready
for the SAT.
After you’ve taken the practice test, score it
right away at sat.org/scoring.
© 2016 The College Board. College Board, SAT, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board. K-5MSA04
,
,Test begins on the next page.
, 1 1
Reading Test
65 M I NU TES, 5 2 QUESTIONS
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading
each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or
implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or
graph).
Questions 1-10 are based on the following plenipotentiaries. It was by far the most splendid and
.......................................................................................................................................................................................................
passage. important assembly ever convoked to discuss and
This passage is adapted from William Maxwell, The Folded
30 determine the affairs of Europe. The Emperor of
Leaf. ©1959 by William Maxwell. Originally published Russia, the King of Prussia, the Kings of Bavaria,
in 1945. Denmark, and Wurttemberg, all were present in
person at the court of the Emperor Francis I in the
The Alcazar Restaurant was on Sheridan Road Austrian capital. When Lymie put down his fork and
near Devon Avenue. It was long and narrow, with 35 began to count them off, one by one, on the fingers
tables for two along the walls and tables for four of his left hand, the waitress, whose name was Irma,
Line down the middle. The decoration was art moderne, thought he was through eating and tried to take his
5 except for the series of murals depicting the four plate away. He stopped her. Prince Metternich (his
seasons, and the sick ferns in the front window. right thumb) presided over the Congress, and
Lymie sat down at the second table from the cash 40 Prince Talleyrand (the index finger) represented
register, and ordered his dinner. The history book, France.
which he propped against the catsup and the glass A party of four, two men and two women, came
10 sugar bowl, had been used by others before him. into the restaurant, all talking at once, and took
Blank pages front and back were filled in with maps, possession of the center table nearest Lymie.
drawings, dates, comic cartoons, and organs of the 45 The women had shingled hair and short tight skirts
body; also with names and messages no longer clear which exposed the underside of their knees when
and never absolutely legible. On nearly every other they sat down. One of the women had the face of a
15 page there was some marginal notation, either in ink young boy but disguised by one trick or another
or in very hard pencil. And unless someone had (rouge, lipstick, powder, wet bangs plastered against
upset a glass of water, the marks on page 177 were 50 the high forehead, and a pair of long pendent
from tears. earrings) to look like a woman of thirty-five, which
While Lymie read about the Peace of Paris, signed as a matter of fact she was. The men were older. They
20 on the thirtieth of May, 1814, between France and laughed more than there seemed any occasion for,
the Allied powers, his right hand managed again and while they were deciding between soup and shrimp
again to bring food up to his mouth. Sometimes he 55 cocktail, and their laughter was too loud. But it was
chewed, sometimes he swallowed whole the food that the women’s voices, the terrible not quite sober pitch
he had no idea he was eating. The Congress of of the women’s voices which caused Lymie to skim
25 Vienna met, with some allowance for delays, early in over two whole pages without knowing what was on
November of the same year, and all the powers them. Fortunately he realized this and went back.
engaged in the war on either side sent 60 Otherwise he might never have known about the
Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 2 CO NTI N U E
