{"id":25968,"date":"2024-04-21T10:20:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T10:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/prep\/?p=25968"},"modified":"2024-08-27T16:38:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T16:38:41","slug":"psat-reading-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/psat\/psat-reading-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital PSAT Reading Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Test your <a title=\"psat reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/psat\">PSAT readiness<\/a> by taking this PSAT Reading quiz!<\/p>\n<p><b>[\u00a0 MORE Free PSAT Reading Quizzes:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/study\/psat\/psat-reading-quiz-detail-questions\/\">Detail Questions Quiz<\/a>\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/study\/psat\/quiz-difficult-passages-and-vocab-in-context\/\">Difficult Passages and Vocab-in-Context<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"PSAT Free Practice Quizzes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/prep\/psat\/psat-free-practice-quizzes\/\"><strong>\u00a0&lt;<\/strong>\u00a0Back to all quizzes<\/a><\/p>\n<div  class='avia-builder-widget-area clearfix  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_promobox  avia-builder-el-first '><div id=\"custom_html-27\" class=\"widget_text widget clearfix widget_custom_html\"><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><div><div class='op-interactive' id='635953b839b66732a12e7d31' data-title='PSAT Reading Quiz' data-url='https:\/\/kaplannorthamerica.outgrow.us\/635953b839b66732a12e7d31?vHeight=1' data-width='100%'><\/div><script src='\/\/dyv6f9ner1ir9.cloudfront.net\/assets\/js\/nloader.js'><\/script><script>initIframe('635953b839b66732a12e7d31');<\/script><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div   class='av_promobox  avia-button-no   avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_sidebar  el_before_av_toggle_container '>\t\t<div class='avia-promocontent'><\/p>\n<h2>Digital PSAT Reading Practice Question #1<\/h2>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>New Zealand consists of two large islands<br \/>\nand over seven hundred smaller islands. ______, this view of New Zealand misses something critical, a fact that was obscured for eons until humans mapped the seafloor. The islands of New Zealand are the mountains of a submerged continent, a land-mass called Zealandia. Mostly submerged beneath the ocean approximately twenty-three million years ago, Zealandia is half the size<\/p>\n<p>of Australia. New Zealand is merely the 6% of Zealandia\u2019s landmass that is still above sea level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A) Additionally,<\/li>\n<li>B) Subsequently,<\/li>\n<li>C) Therefore,<\/li>\n<li>D) However,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div  class=\"togglecontainer   toggle_close_all  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_promobox  el_before_av_promobox \" >\n<section class=\"av_toggle_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\"  >    <div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  >        <p data-fake-id=\"#toggle-id-1\" class=\"toggler \"  itemprop=\"headline\"    role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"toggle-id-1\"><strong>Digital PSAT Reading Practice Question Answer #1<\/strong><span class=\"toggle_icon\" >        <span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>        <div id=\"toggle-id-1\" class=\"toggle_wrap \"  >            <div class=\"toggle_content invers-color \"  itemprop=\"text\"   ><p><strong>Correct Answer: (D)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Difficulty:<\/strong> Easy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Category:<\/strong>\u00a0Expression of Ideas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting to the Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0This question deals with a tran- sition. When determining which transition is the one to use in a given situation, consider what the transition is doing. Is it a\u00a0continuation\u00a0of the ideas in the previous sentence? Does it set up a\u00a0contrast\u00a0between the ideas in the current sentence and the ones in the previous sentence? Or is it laying out events in a\u00a0cause-and-effect\u00a0situation?<\/p>\n<p>In this passage, the first sentence establishes how many islands make up New Zealand. The second sentence establishes that \u201cthis view\u201d is missing a \u201ccritical\u201d fact. In terms of purpose, the transition connecting both sentences would be establishing a contrast between those two ideas. Choice\u00a0(D)\u00a0sets up that contrast, and it is correct. (A) is incorrect because that transition func- tions as a continuation of the first sentence\u2019s ideas. Choices (B) and (C) are incorrect because those transi- tions establish a cause-and-effect relationship between the two sentences.<\/p>\n            <\/div>        <\/div>    <\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\t<div   class='av_promobox  avia-button-no   avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_toggle_container  el_before_av_toggle_container '>\t\t<div class='avia-promocontent'><h2>Digital PSAT Reading Practice Question #2<\/h2>\n<p>Poet and monk Ukn\u0303a\u0304 Suttantapri\u0304ja\u0304 Ind wrote about life in Cambodia in the early twentieth century. In \u201cJourney to Angkor Wat,\u201d written in his native Khmer ______ Ind reflects on the ancient Buddhist ruins in light of the political change occurring in Cambodia at the time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 329\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 329\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ul>\n<li>A)\u00a0 language,<\/li>\n<li>B)\u00a0 language\u2014<\/li>\n<li>C)\u00a0 language<\/li>\n<li>D)\u00a0 language)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class=\"togglecontainer   toggle_close_all  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_promobox  el_before_av_promobox \" >\n<section class=\"av_toggle_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\"  >    <div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  >        <p data-fake-id=\"#toggle-id-2\" class=\"toggler \"  itemprop=\"headline\"    role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"toggle-id-2\"><strong>Digital PSAT Reading Practice Question Answer #2<\/strong><span class=\"toggle_icon\" >        <span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>        <div id=\"toggle-id-2\" class=\"toggle_wrap \"  >            <div class=\"toggle_content invers-color \"  itemprop=\"text\"   ><p><strong>Correct Answer: (A)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Difficulty:<\/strong>\u00a0Easy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Category:<\/strong>\u00a0Standard English Conventions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting to the Answer:<\/strong> Since this question asks about Standard English conventions, read the answer choices before looking at the passage. The choices signal that this question deals with punctuation, most likely testing how to set off parenthetical information, as indicated by the comma, dash, and parenthesis in the answer choices. The sentence with the blank contains the parenthetical phrase \u201cwritten in his native Khmer language.\u201d Parenthetical elements should be set off from the rest of the sentence with a pair of matching punctuation marks. Since the phrase is preceded by a comma, either predict that a comma should also follow \u201clanguage\u201d or eliminate incorrect answer choices; (A) is correct. Choices (B) and (D) include other ways to set off parenthetical information, but a comma must be used here to result in a matching set. Choice (C) incorrectly runs the text together by omitting all punctuation<\/p>\n            <\/div>        <\/div>    <\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/p>\n\t<div   class='av_promobox  avia-button-no   avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_toggle_container  el_before_av_toggle_container '>\t\t<div class='avia-promocontent'><\/p>\n<h2>Digital PSAT Reading Practice Question #3<\/h2>\n<p>Few developments have so greatly affected American life as the automobile. The car has had a significant effect on nearly every facet of American life, including how we work, where we live, and what we believe. Interestingly, it was the process of building cars rather than the cars themselves that first brought a sea of change to the American workplace. In 1914, a Ford plant in Highland Park, Michigan used the first electric conveyor belt, greatly increasing the efficiency of automobile manufacturing. Assembly lines for the production of automobiles were quickly adopted and became highly mechanized, providing a new model for industrial business.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 336\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Which choice best states the main idea of the text?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A) The automobile has changed American life more than any other invention.<\/li>\n<li>B) A new method for building automo- biles changed American manufacturing processes.<\/li>\n<li>C) Assembly lines have proven to be the most efficient method of producing industrial equipment.<\/li>\n<li>D) Until the installation of the conveyor belt, the Ford plant in Highland Park, Michigan was unsuccessful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><div  class=\"togglecontainer   toggle_close_all  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_promobox  el_before_av_promobox \" >\n<section class=\"av_toggle_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\"  >    <div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  >        <p data-fake-id=\"#toggle-id-3\" class=\"toggler \"  itemprop=\"headline\"    role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"toggle-id-3\"><strong>Digital PSAT Reading Practice Question Answer #3<\/strong><span class=\"toggle_icon\" >        <span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>        <div id=\"toggle-id-3\" class=\"toggle_wrap \"  >            <div class=\"toggle_content invers-color \"  itemprop=\"text\"   ><p><strong>Correct Answer: (B)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Difficulty:<\/strong>\u00a0Hard<\/p>\n<p><strong>Category:<\/strong>\u00a0Information and Ideas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting to the Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0The first two sentences intro- duce the automobile as an invention that had a large impact on American life, but the passage changes focus after that. Marked by the emphasis keywords \u201cInterest- ingly,\u201d \u201cfirst,\u201d and \u201csea of change,\u201d the main idea expressed in the remainder of the text is that the\u00a0process\u00a0of manufacturing cars changed American business practices. This prediction matches\u00a0(B), the correct answer.<\/p>\n<p>Incorrect choices (A) and (C) take ideas from the passage but go too far. In the first sentence, the text states the automobile is one of a \u201cFew\u201d crucial inventions that changed American life, but not that it was the\u00a0most\u00a0important one. (A) also makes no mention of the change in car manufacturing processes that was the focus of the rest of the text. Similarly, the passage never states that assembly lines are the \u201cmost efficient method\u201d for manufacturing all \u201cindustrial equipment\u201d because the text only discusses car assembly. The success of the Ford plant is never mentioned in the passage, so (D) is also incorrect.<\/p>\n            <\/div>        <\/div>    <\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><br \/>\n\t<div   class='av_promobox  avia-button-no   avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_toggle_container  el_before_av_toggle_container '>\t\t<div class='avia-promocontent'><\/p>\n<h2>Digital PSAT Reading Practice Question #4<\/h2>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 392\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>The following text is from Honore\u0301 De Balzac\u2019s 1830 short story \u201cThe Elixir of Life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the age of sixty, Belvide\u0301ro had become enamored of an angel of peace and beauty. Don Juan was the sole fruit of this late love. For fifteen years the good man had mourned the loss of his dear Juana. His many servants and his son attributed the strange habits he had contracted to this grief.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 392\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>As used in the text, what does the word \u201ccontracted\u201d most nearly mean?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A) Agreed<\/li>\n<li>B) Ordered<\/li>\n<li>C) Acquired<\/li>\n<li>D) Withdrawn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class=\"togglecontainer   toggle_close_all  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_promobox  avia-builder-el-last \" >\n<section class=\"av_toggle_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\"  >    <div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  >        <p data-fake-id=\"#toggle-id-4\" class=\"toggler \"  itemprop=\"headline\"    role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"toggle-id-4\"><strong>Digital PSAT Reading Practice Question Answer #4<\/strong><span class=\"toggle_icon\" >        <span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>        <div id=\"toggle-id-4\" class=\"toggle_wrap \"  >            <div class=\"toggle_content invers-color \"  itemprop=\"text\"   ><p><strong>Correct Answer: (C)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Difficulty:<\/strong>\u00a0Medium<\/p>\n<p><strong>Category:<\/strong>\u00a0Craft and Structure<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting to the Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0In the text, the servants and son believe Belvide\u0301ro\u2019s strange habits came from his grief. So Belvide\u0301ro would have \u201cadded\u201d or \u201cobtained\u201d these new habits.\u00a0(C), \u201cacquired,\u201d matches this prediction and is correct.<\/p>\n<p>The incorrect choices are all alternative definitions of \u201ccontracted\u201d that do not fit this context.<\/p>\n            <\/div>        <\/div>    <\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Test your PSAT readiness by taking this PSAT Reading quiz! 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