SSAT Reading Question 158: Answer and Explanation
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Question: 158
8. The sensory image most important to this passage is
- A. sound of the crack of the whip
- B. sensation of brilliant sunshine
- C. smell of horses
- D. sound of the ocean
Correct Answer: E
Explanation:
E
Most of the imagery relates to the terrain: "Just here the land was rolling—a grand sweep of regular elevations and depressions as far as the eye could reach—like the stately heave and swell of the ocean's bosom after a storm. And everywhere were cornfields, accenting with squares of deeper green, this limitless expanse of grassy land. But presently this sea upon dry ground was to lose its 'rolling' character and stretch away for seven hundred miles as level as a floor!"