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1 12 Practice Tests for the SAT
Practice Test Twelve Answers and Explanations
Choice (E) is a false inference based on the first paragraph;
the aristocrats may well have continued to be interested in
music.
16. A
Difficulty: Medium
Choice (A) is the correct answer because 1) women were
allowed to become involved in music in order to enhance
the family's social status through marriage (a traditional
role) and 2) singing was especially encouraged because it
fit in with the traditional conception of the mother.
There is no evidence at all in the passage to support (B).
Choice (C) is incorrect because the increased participation of
bourgeois women was in amateur, not professional, music.
Choice (0) directly contradicts what we're told in the first
paragraph. Choice (E) is not correct because the author never
explicitly says that women's increased participation in music
was justified by their show of talent.
17. D
Difficulty: Low
The point of the entire second paragraph is that women
musicians in the 19th century were still subject to the
authority of the men. Due to societal standards and beliefs,
women could not pursue a musical career without the
permission and support of men. In other words, women
musicians were not allowed to act independently, which
was the accepted norm, (0). None of the other choices are
supported by the passage at all.
18. c
Difficulty: Medium
The third paragraph is devoted to a discussion of
18th-century beliefs concerning women as artists-beliefs
that held sway in the 19th century as well. The author is
demonstrating that I 9th-century beliefs about women were
long-standing and firmly rooted, (C).
Choice (A) is wrong because the third paragraph really
shows that the perception of women did not change from
the 18th to the 19th centuries. Choice (B) is not supported
by anything in the third paragraph. Choice (D) is out
because it doesn't seem that chauvinism was any worse in
the 18th century than in the 19th-it was about the same.
Choice (E) is incorrect because the philosophers in the third
paragraph aren't pointing out any faults in society.
19. A
Difficulty: Medium
Look to the previous sentence ( ... writers believed that
women did not possess the intellectual and emotional
capacity to learn or create as artists) to understand what
Rousseau means by women ... possess no artistic sensibility.
Aptitude is the right synonym for capacity and therefore
the right synonym for sensibility as well, since capacity and
sensibility mean the same thing here.
20. E
Difficulty: Medium
Campe's view is presented to show that people thought it
was more important for women to be wives and mothers
than to be composers. Campe criticizes women composers
on the basis that they have neglected their domestic duties.
Choice (E) is therefore the correct answer.
Campe never suggests that women cannot compose, and
he certainly doesn't think they have too many domestic
responsibilities, so (A) and (B) are out. Choice (C) contradicts
Campe. Choice (0) does not fit because Campe would never
advocate that women should concentrate exclusively
on music.
21. B
Difficulty: Medium
According to the fourth paragraph, 19th-century men
and women agreed with the ideas of the 18th-century
philosophers. Therefore, one source of the societal censure
and internal conflicts that women musicians suffered must
have been disapproval from other women, (B).
The author never says women had a problem with intensity,
(A), or competition from men, (0). Choice (C) is clearly
wrong because women did not receive many supportive
opinions. Choice (E) is a distortion of information in the
paragraph: Schumann is cited as an example of a great
woman musician with internal conflicts caused by society;
she is not the reason other women had internal conflicts.