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ID: SAT-RW-II-022
Section: SAT Reading & Writing (RW) – Information and Ideas
Topic: Command of Evidence – Textual
Difficulty level: Medium

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A student is writing about the novel The Long Meadow by the novelist Adela Merrick. In the novel, Josephine refuses a marriage her family has arranged to secure its fortunes, insisting on choosing for herself rather than accepting a match that would please her relatives but not her heart.

Which quotation from The Long Meadow most effectively illustrates the claim?

AHer aunt, delighted at the prospect, declared that no sensible girl in Josephine’s position could do anything but accept a man of Mr. Coyle’s standing and settled income. The whole remark belongs to the aunt and her satisfaction, and it passes over Josephine’s own feelings on the match entirely.

B“I am grateful for the offer, Mr. Coyle, and I will not pretend otherwise,” Josephine said, “but I cannot marry where I do not love, and no comfort your fortune could buy would make that a bargain I would ever keep.”

CMr. Coyle’s mills were the largest for twenty miles, and the whole parish agreed that his fortune had been honestly and steadily made.

DWhen word of the refusal reached the house, her father said little at supper, but afterward he paced the study far into the night, unable to forgive her.

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