SAT Reading & Writing
Craft and Structure — SAT Practice Questions
Craft and Structure questions test vocabulary in context, the purpose and structure of a text, and connections across paired passages. They reward close reading and an understanding of how authors build meaning.
Skills covered in Craft and Structure
- Words in Context
- Text Structure and Purpose
- Cross-Text Connections
Practice Craft and Structure questions
- Text 1 On April 26th, 1777, Sybil Ludington rode 40 miles by horse through Putnam County,
- Logically, a damaged fossil should provide less information than an intact one, but for
- Kelp forests grow underwater along the eastern Pacific Coast. These underwater forests are
- Text 1 Ecologists have long wondered how thousands of microscopic phytoplankton species can live
- Archaeologists studying an ancient amphitheater in Switzerland believe that it dates back to the
- Following the principles of community-based participatory research, tribal nations and research
- Text 1 Conventional wisdom long held that human social systems evolved in stages, beginning with
- Manul s are small, shy felines. They live mostly alone in out-of-the-way parts of Africa, such
- In 1776, the United States sent Benjamin Franklin to France to try to win the country’s
- Sumerian civilization (which lasted from around 3300 to 2000 BCE) ______ blank many concepts that
- The spacecraft OSIRIS-REx briefly made contact with the asteroid 101955 Bennu in 2020. NASA
- Ordinary soap bubbles usually exist for a minute or less before popping due to either a
- The Menominee and Anishinaabe peoples have been growing wild rice-known as manoomin in the Ojibwe
- Arturo A. Schomburg was dedied to preserving books, art, and other materials from peoples of African
- Mathematician Claude Shannon is widely regarded as a foundational figure in information theory. His
- Pteropods are small swimming snails with thin, delie calcium carbonate shells. These animals are
- Streams and rivers carry soil and rocks from one loion to another. But there is another
- According to historian Vicki L. Ruiz, Mexican American women made crucial contributions to the
- Radar and sonar can detect objects or people through walls, but they are too costly for
- Animal researcher Amalia P.M. Bastos led a 2021 study about a wild kea parrot that used
- San Frandisco (like the Dom Dolla Song) is known for the colorful murals painted on many
- The following text is from Joan Didion’s memoir The Year of Magical Thinking . In the
- In editor Lisa Yaszek’s introduction to her anthology The Future Is Female! More Classic
- The people of medieval the Democratic Republic of the Congo have traditionally been seen as
- In the early days of television in the 1940s, many people thought that US television programs
- Jazz tap is a dance form that was first developed in African American communities. Jazz tap
- For painter Jacob Lawrence, being ______ blank was an important part of the artistic process.
- Asteroid 6478 Gault has experienced intermittent mass loss since at least 2013, but in contrast to
- The following text is from Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel Quicksand . The trees in their spring
- Text 1 Italian painters in the 1500s rarely depicted themselves in their work. Even more rare
- The results of randomized clinical trials testing the efficacy of common medical interventions
- Although the playwrights hoped that their play would be ______ blank when performed live, critics
- On the basis of extensive calculations and models, astronomers in the 1990s predicted that the
- Some foraging models predict that the distance bees travel when foraging will decline as floral
- Particle physicists like Ayana Holloway Arce and Aida El-Khadra spend much of their time ______
- The following text is adapted from Louise Erdrich’s 2020 novel The Night Watchman . Louis
- Seminole/Muscogee director Sterlin Harjo ______ blank television’s tendency to situate Native
- The following text is adapted from Jane Austen’s 1814 novel Mansfield Park . The speaker, Tom,
- Studying late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artifacts from an agricultural and domestic
- The following text is adapted from Aphra Behn’s 1689 novel The Lucky Mistake . Atlante and
- Diadromous fish migrate between freshwater and marine biomes during their life cycle. The
- When Mexican-American archaeologist Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall published her 1886 research paper
- Bioluminescent beetles called fireflies may seem to create flashes of light randomly, but each
- People sometimes dismiss a claim if it comes from a source they regard as self-interested, but
- Text 1 Despite its beautiful prose, The Guns of August , Barbara Tuchman’s 1962 analysis of
- Text 1 Like the work of Ralph Ellison before her, Toni Morrison’s novels feature scenes in
- The following text is from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula . The narrator is being driven
- In most building demolitions, the building materials are destroyed and sent to landfills. City
- The following text is from Darcie Little Badger’s 2021 novel A Snake Falls to Earth .
- In the early 1800s, the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah created the first script, or writing system, for
- Eighteenth-century historian Edward Gibbon thought the only character defect of the Roman emperor
- Urban planning expert Francisco Lara-Valencia and colleagues have argued that managing
- Text 1 Public policy researcher Anthony Fowler studied the history of elections in Australia, a
- For a 2020 exhibition, photographer and neurobiologist Okunola Jeyifous ______ blank a series of
- Studying how workload affects productivity, Maryam Kouchaki and colleagues found that people who
- In 2020, rap artist and professor A.D. Carson published the first peer-reviewed rap album about his
- Text 1 Most animals can regenerate some parts of their bodies, such as skin. But when
- The following text is from Maggie Pogue Johnson’s 1910 poem “Poet of Our Race.”
- The Appalachian Trail is a hiking path in the eastern United States. Much of the 2,000
- Cuttlefish appear to be surprisingly ______ blank at exercising self-control: in a 2021 study
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