SAT #13

The soundtrack to Mira Nair’s 1991 film Mississippi Masala expressively captures the clashing of cultures that happens when _____ (a young Indian woman from Uganda and a young African American man from Mississippi) meet. Featured throughout the film are songs from Uganda’s Afrigo Band, the Indian composer L. Subramaniam, and the Mississippi blues musician Sam Chatmon. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• it’s two protagonists

• its two protagonist’s

• it’s two protagonist’s

• its two protagonists

In 1986, conceptual artist Sophie Calle asked twenty-three people, all of whom had been born without sight, to describe “their image of beauty” in rich detail. Calle paired excerpts of these conversations with photographs—both of interviewees and the items they _____ to powerful effect in her exhibition The Blind. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• described, from hair to grass to sculptures

• described, from hair to grass to sculptures—

• described—from hair to grass to sculptures,

• described: from hair to grass to sculptures

Midway through her 1968 jazz album A Monastic Trio, Alice Coltrane switches instruments, swapping the piano for the harp. With the same fluid style that Coltrane was famous for on piano, she _____ her fingers across the harp strings and creates a radiant sound.

• sweep

• are sweeping

• were sweeping

• sweeps

It can take time for proposed amendments to the US Constitution to become law. For example, the Twenty-Second Amendment, which limits the number of _____ can serve, was first proposed in 1947 but wasn’t approved by the required three-fourths majority of state legislatures until 1951. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• terms presidents

• term’s presidents

• term’s president’s

• terms president’s

In 2018, a team of researchers led by Dr. Caitlin Whalen compiled every available measurement of ocean mixing rates from the past two decades. With this novel data set, the team was able to determine how current-driven mixing varies across ______ and what impact it has on the distribution of heat and nutrients in the ocean. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• regions,

• regions:

• regions;

• regions