May 2018 US SAT Test QAS and Answer Paper

May 2018 US SAT Test QAS Paper

Reading Test

Questions 1-10 – Literature – March 2018 International SAT Test QAS

This passage is adapted from Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie.Originally published in 1900.

Questions 11-20 – Science- March 2018 International SAT Test QAS

This passage and accompanying figures are adapted from Giovanni Frazzetto, Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love: What Neuroscience Can—and Can’t—Tell Us about How We Feel. ©2013 by Giovanni Frazzetto.

Questions 21-30- Natural Science – March 2018 International SAT Test QAS

This passage is adapted from David Grimm, “The Genes That Turned Wildcats into Kitty Cats.” ©2014 by American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Questions 31-41 – History – March 2018 International SAT Test QAS

Passage 1 is adapted from a speech delivered in 1854 by Stephen Douglas, “Defense of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill.”In 1854, Douglas, a senator from Illinois, proposed a bill allowing voters in the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether slavery should be permitted there. When enacted, the bill would effectively repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which prohibited slavery in these territories. Passage 2 is adapted from a speech delivered in 1856 by Charles Sumner, “The Crime against Kansas.” Sumner was a senator from Massachusetts.

Questions 42-52 – Natural Science – March 2018 International SAT Test QAS

This passage and accompanying figure are adapted from Sandra M. Faber et al., “Staring Back to Cosmic Dawn.”©2014 by F+W Media, Inc.