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ID: DSAT-RW-5
Section: Digital SAT Reading & Writing (RW) - Broadly Reading - Information and Ideas
Topic: Command of Evidence – Textual
Difficulty level: Medium

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The following text is adapted from Willa Cather's 1913 novel O Pioneers! In this scene, Alexandra Bergson writes a letter to her younger brother, who has been away from their family farm in Nebraska for many years.

"I do not know how the orchard has lived through this summer. Everything was so dry. I hauled water every third day for the young trees. The yellow rose-bush by the windmill is still blooming—I believe it likes this hard weather. I cannot get anyone to help mend the pasture fence, so the cows keep getting out. I suppose you never think of the old place. But sometimes it seems as if it were thinking of you."

Which quotation from Alexandra's letter most effectively illustrates her sense of responsibility for the family farm in her brother's absence?

A"I hauled water every third day for the young trees."

B"The yellow rose-bush by the windmill is still blooming."

C"I cannot get anyone to help mend the pasture fence."

D"It seems as if it were thinking of you."

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