SAT Reading Comprehension Exercises – Passage 4

by | SAT/ACT, SAT/ACT Verbal

Below is the link to the next article in the installment. This one is pretty hard in my opinion, but it is also pretty short so it should make for a fairly quick exercise. Happy reading!!!

http://www.historytoday.com/fern-riddell/curiouser-and-curiouser-case-lewis-carroll

1) What is the author’s purpose in the passage?

2) What can we infer about the opinion that Karoline Leach and Jenny Wolf have of Carroll’s relationship with children?

3) What does the author imply in her statement about Professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst?

4) In context, what does the expression “shoe-horning” (in the first sentence of the second-to-last paragraph) most probably mean?

5) In context, what does the word “scant” (last sentence of the article) mean?

6) What is the author implying by saying (in the last paragraph) that, “Popular culture is dangerously good at historical myth making”?

Answers and analysis will follow in the next post….