April 2016 Practice Test - 5

Sep 28, 2026

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April 2016 SAT Practice Test #5 is an exam preparation document focused on a reading test section with timed reading and multiple-choice questions. It includes instructions for turning to the answer sheet, selecting the best answers based on stated or implied information, and progressing through passages. The material provides a reading passage excerpt involving characters, setting details, and historical references, followed by questions assessing comprehension and analysis of shifts in focus within the passage.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages72

Reading Time3 h 1 min

AccessFree to download

Reading Test

Instructions and Passage-Based Questions

Passage Excerpt and Comprehension Question

April 2016 Practice Test \# 5 Make time to take the practice test. It’s one of the best ways to get ready for the SAT. After you’ve taken the practice test, score it [right away at](right away at sat.org/scoring)[ sat.org/scoring](right away at sat.org/scoring). © 2016 The College Board. College Board, SAT, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks ofthe College Board. K-5MSA04 Test begins on the next page. | 1 | 1 | | --- | --- | | Reading Test
65 MINUTES, 52 QUESTIONS
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section. | | |
Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or graph) . | | Questions 1-10 are based on the following passage. This passage is adapted from William Maxwell, The Folded Leaf. ©1959 by William Maxwell. Originally published in 1945 . The Alcazar Restaurant was on Sheridan Road near Devon Avenue. It was long and narrow, with tables for two along the walls and tables for four Line down the middle. The decoration was art moderne, 5 except for the series of murals depicting the four seasons, and the sick ferns in the front window. Lymie sat down at the second table from the cash register, and ordered his dinner. The history book, which he propped against the catsup and the glass 10 sugar bowl, had been used by others before him. Blank pages front and back were filled in with maps, drawings, dates, comic cartoons, and organs of the body; also with names and messages no longer clear and never absolutely legible. On nearly every other 15 page there was some marginal notation, either in ink or in very hard pencil. And unless someone had upset a glass of water, the marks on page 177 were from tears. While Lymie read about the Peace of Paris, signed 20 on the thirtieth of May, 1814, between France and the Allied powers, his right hand managed again and again to bring food up to his mouth. Sometimes he chewed, sometimes he swallowed whole the food that he had no idea he was eating. The Congress of 25 Vienna met, with some allowance for delays, early in November of the same year, and all the powers engaged in the war on either side sent plenipotentiaries. It was by far the most splendid and important assembly ever convoked to discuss and 30 determine the affairs of Europe. The Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, the Kings of Bavaria, Denmark, and Wurttemberg, all were present in person at the court of the Emperor Francis I in the Austrian capital. When Lymie put down his fork and 35 began to count them off, one by one, on the fingers of his left hand, the waitress, whose name was Irma, thought he was through eating and tried to take his plate away. He stopped her. Prince Metternich (his right thumb) presided over the Congress, and 40 Prince Talleyrand (the index finger) represented France. A party of four, two men and two women, came into the restaurant, all talking at once, and took possession of the center table nearest Lymie. 45 The women had shingled hair and short tight skirts which exposed the underside of their knees when they sat down. One of the women had the face of a young boy but disguised by one trick or another (rouge, lipstick, powder, wet bangs plastered against 50 the high forehead, and a pair of long pendent earrings) to look like a woman of thirty-five, which as a matter of fact she was. The men were older. They laughed more than there seemed any occasion for, while they were deciding between soup and shrimp 55 cocktail, and their laughter was too loud. But it was the women’s voices, the terrible not quite sober pitch of the women’s voices which caused Lymie to skimover two whole pages without knowing what was on them. Fortunately he realized this and went back. 60 Otherwise he might

FAQs

How should you answer questions in the reading test section?

Read each passage (or pair of passages), then choose the best answer based on what is stated or implied in the passage and any accompanying graphics.

What scoring step is recommended after completing the practice test?

Score the practice test right away at sat.org/scoring.

What does the passage-based question on the test ask you to determine?

It asks about how the primary focus shifts over the course of the passage, with answer choices describing different possible shifts.

Sep 28, 2026

Uploaded by Kurz