March 2019 US SAT Test QAS and Answer Paper

March 2019 US SAT Test QAS Paper

Reading Test

Questions 1-10 – Literature – SAT 2019 March US QAS

This passage is adapted from Rita Dove, Through the Ivory Gate. ©1992 by Rita Dove. The novel’s main character, Virginia, has just found her old cello while unpacking after a move.

Questions 11-21 – Social Science – SAT 2019 March US QAS

This passage is adapted from Elizabeth Svoboda, What Makes a Hero? The Surprising Science of Selflessness. ©2013 by Elizabeth Svoboda. 

Questions 22-31 – Science – SAT 2019 March US QAS

This passage is adapted from Jonathan Shaw,”The’Bionic Leaf’”©2015 by Harvard Magazine Inc. 

Questions 32-41 – History – SAT 2019 March US QAS

Passage 1 is adapted from Albert Luthuli’s speech to the South African Congress of Democrats, delivered in 1958.

Passage 2 is adapted from Harold Macmillan’s address to the South African Parliament, delivered in 1960. At the time of these speeches, South Africa was in the process of transitioning from a British colony to an independent republic under a system of white-minority rule known as apartheid. Luthuli was the president of the African National Congress, a group advocating equality for black South Africans; Macmillan, the prime minister of Britain, was addressing the all-white South African Parliament.

Questions 42-52 -Science – SAT 2019 March US QAS

This passage is adapted from Robert M. Hazen, The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet. ©2012 by Robert M. Hazen.