April 2018 SAT Reading Writing and Language Tests - Question and Answer Service

Sep 14, 2026

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April 2018 SAT Reading, Writing and Language Tests Question-and-Answer Service materials for use alongside a QAS Student Guide and a personalized QAS Report. The package contains SAT reading test sections with timed guidance, instruction for selecting the best answers based on passages and accompanying graphics, and sample items. A passage adapted from Nikolai Gogol, “The Mysterious Portrait” (1835) is presented with multiple-choice questions assessing interpretation, conflict, artistic values, and supporting evidence. Not for reproduction or resale.

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Pages42

Reading Time1 h 46 min

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Reading Test

Instructions and passage-based questions

April 2018 Reading/ Writing and Language Tests Questionand-Answer Service Use this with your QAS Student Guide and personalized QAS Report. What's inside: – Test questions – The Essay prompt administered on your test day NOT FOR REPRODUCTION OR RESALE. | 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 Nikolai Gogol,“The Mysterious Portrait.” Originally published in 1835 . Young Tchartkoff was an artist of talent, which promised great things: his work gave evidence of observation, thought, and a strong inclination to Line approach nearer to nature. 5 “Look here, my friend,” his professor said to him more than once,“you have talent; it will be a shame if you waste it: but you are impatient; you have but tobe attracted by anything, to fall in love with it, you become engrossed with it, and all else goes for 10 nothing, and you won’t even look at it. See to it that you do not become a fashionable artist. At present your colouring begins to assert itself too loudly; and your drawing is at times quite weak; you are already striving after the fashionable style, because it strikes 15 the eye at once. Have a care! society already begins to have its attraction for you: I have seen you with a shiny hat, a foppish neckerchief. . . . It is seductive to paint fashionable little pictures and portraits for money; but talent is ruined, not developed, by that 20 means. Be patient; think out every piece of work, discard your foppishness; let others amass money, your own will not fail you.” The professor was partly right. Our artist sometimes wanted to enjoy himself, to play the fop, 25 in short, to give vent to his youthful impulses in some way or other; but he could control himself withal. At times he would forget everything, when he had once taken his brush in his hand, and could not tear himself from it except as from a delightful 30 dream. His taste perceptibly developed. He did not as yet understand all the depths of Raphael, but he was attracted by Guido’s broad and rapid handling, he paused before Titian’s portraits, he delighted in the Flemish masters. The dark veil enshrouding the 35 ancient pictures had not yet wholly passed away from before them; but he already saw something in them, though in private he did not agree with the professor that the secrets ofthe old masters are irremediably lost to us. It seemed to him that the nineteenth 40 century had improved upon them considerably, that the delineation of nature was more clear, more vivid, more close. It sometimes vexed him when he saw how a strange artist, French or German, sometimes not even a painter by profession, but only a skilful 45 dauber, produced, by the celerity of his brush and the vividness of his colouring, a universal commotion, and amassed in a twinkling a funded capital. This did not occur to him when fully occupied with his own work, for then he forgot food and drink and all the 50 world. But when dire want arrived, when he had no money wherewith to buy brushes and colours, when his implacable landlord came ten times a day to demand the rent for his rooms, then did the luck of the wealthy artists recur to his hungry imagination; 55 then did the thought which so often traverses Russian minds, to give up altogether, and go downhill, utterly to the bad, traverse his. And now he was almost in this frame of mind. “Yes, it is all very well, to be patient, be patient!” 60 he exclaimed, with vexation; “but there is an end to patience at last. Be patient! but

FAQs

What is the purpose of the April 2018 QAS Reading, Writing and Language material?

It is designed to be used with a QAS Student Guide and a personalized QAS Report for answering and reviewing SAT test questions based on provided prompts and passages.

How do students answer questions in the Reading Test section?

After reading each passage or pair of passages, students choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or implied in the passage and any accompanying graphics.

Which literary source passage is used for questions 1–10?

Questions 1–10 are based on a passage adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s “The Mysterious Portrait,” originally published in 1835.

Sep 14, 2026

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