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SAT Reading: Long Passages Drill 2, Problem 7

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00:03

Shmoop alert: Unidentified flying question has been spotted in the area...

00:06

It's the passage that just won't go away! Press pause and read it again...if you'd like...

00:46

In lines 71 through 73, the author characterizes Aunt Georgiana as...what?

00:52

And here are the potential answers...

00:57

In this sentence, the narrator thinks about

00:59

how Aunt Georgiana's appearance probably shocks his landlady.

01:03

When he uses the phrase "what was left of her," we can't help but imagine some zombie

01:07

version of Auntie G wreaking havoc in Boston.

01:10

We're going to keep that pleasant image with us as we sift through these answers.

01:14

Come on, how could Auntie G have survived out in the wild mid-west of Nebraska this

01:18

long, if she was super fragile?

01:20

(B) is wrong for sure.

01:22

Later in the passage, we hear that Auntie G goes right to bed when she gets to the boarding

01:26

house, but there's nothing in this sentence to say that the trip was outright dangerous

01:30

for her.

01:31

This lady may be withered, but she's still a tough old bird.

01:36

Well, Auntie G has definitely adapted to her harsh frontier lifestyle, which this passage

01:41

makes clear has taken a serious toll on her.

01:45

The focus isn't on her ability to adapt in general, though, so (D) is completely wrong.

01:49

Uh, yeah, we're sure that the effects of Auntie G's hardships are clear to everybody

01:54

who sees her.

01:54

There's no way (A) is correct. Which points us to (E), the correct answer.

01:58

Due to how she lives, Aunt Georgiana has broken down quite a bit over the last few years.

02:02

We're sure it's nothing a little TLC can't fix.

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