October 2018 SAT Practice Test # 10 - Reading/Writing and Language Tests

Sep 14, 2026

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October 2018 SAT Practice Test #10 focuses on Reading, Writing, and Language question sets designed to evaluate comprehension, reasoning, and language skills. The Reading Test section provides passages with associated questions that require selecting the best answer based on explicit statements and implied meaning, including interpretation of accompanying context. One provided excerpt follows Miss Grace Spivey arriving in 1938 Threestep, Georgia, introducing her background and teaching choices, and it culminates in a question sequence testing understanding of the narrator and events.

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Reading Time1 h 36 min

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Reading Test

Answer sheet instructions and question approach

Passage-based questions (Questions 1-10)

October 2018 The SAT® Practice Test \# 10 Reading/ Writing and Language Tests Make time to take the practice test. It is one of the best ways to get ready for the SAT. After you have taken the practice test, score it [right away at](right away at sat.org/scoring)[ sat.org/scoring](right away at sat.org/scoring). | 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 Mary Helen Stefaniak, The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel. ©2010 by Mary Helen Stefaniak. Miss Grace Spivey arrived in Threestep, Georgia, in August 1938 . She stepped off the train wearing a pair of thick-soled boots suitable for hiking, a navy Line blue dress, and a little white tam that rode the waves 5 of her red hair at a gravity-defying angle. August was a hellish month to step off the train in Georgia, although it was nothing, she said, compared to the 119 degrees that greeted her when she arrived onetime in Timbuktu, which, she assured us, was a real 10 place in Africa. I believe her remark irritated some of the people gathered to welcome her on the burned grass alongside the tracks. When folks are sweating through their shorts, they don’t like to hear that this is nothing compared to someplace else. Irritated or 15 not, the majority of those present were inclined to seethe arrival of the new schoolteacher in a positive light. Hard times were still upon us in 1938, but, like my momma said,“We weren’t no poorer than we’d ever been,” and the citizens of Threestep were in the 20 mood for a little excitement. Miss Spivey looked like just the right person to give it to them. She was, by almost anyone’s standards, a woman of the world. She’d gone to boarding schools since she was six years old; she’d 25 studied French in Paris and drama in London; and during what she called a “fruitful intermission” in her formal education, she had traveled extensively in the Near East and Africa with a friend of her grandmother’s, one Janet Miller, who was a medical 30 doctor from Nashville, Tennessee. After her travels with Dr. Miller, Miss Spivey continued her education by attending Barnard College in New York City. She told us all that at school the first day. When my little brother Ralphord asked what did she study at 35 Barnyard College, Miss Spivey explained that Barnard, which she wrote on the blackboard, was the sister school of Columbia University, of which, she expected, we all had heard. It was there, she told us, in the midst of trying to 40 find her true mission in life, that she wandered one afternoon into a lecture by the famous John Dewey, who was talking about his famous book, Democracy and Education. Professor Dewey was in his seventies by then, Miss Spivey said, but he still liked to chat 45 with students after a lecture—especially female students, she added—sometimes over coffee, and see in their eyes the fire his words could kindle. It was after this lecture and subsequent coffee that Miss Spivey had marched to the Teacher’s College and 50 signed up, all aflame. Two years later, she told a cheery blue-suited woman from the WPA1 that she wanted to bring democracy and education to the poorest, darkest, most remote and forgotten corner of America. 55 They sent her to Threestep, Georgia. Miss Spivey paused there for questions, avoiding my brother Ralphord’s eye. What we really wanted to know about—all twenty-six of us across seven grade levels in the one 60 room—was the pearly white button hanging on a Unauthorized copying or reuse of an

FAQs

What does the Reading Test ask students to do?

Read each passage or pair of passages and choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or implied, including any graphics.

How should students use the answer sheet for this test section?

Turn to Section 1 of the answer sheet to answer the questions in the Reading Test section.

What is the passage in Questions 1–10 about?

The passage centers on Miss Grace Spivey arriving in Threestep, Georgia in August 1938, including her background and her first classroom interaction involving a world map.

Sep 14, 2026

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