(Always check your specific edition—page numbers vary.)
The correct answer for the specific grammar question typically associated with the "Personal Anthropology" personal anthropology sat answers
A) “I carried a notebook and a pretense of neutrality” B) “an elder called me ‘mija’” C) “I realized my study… was also a study of my own grandmother’s hands” D) “fieldwork in the Andes” (Always check your specific edition—page numbers vary
See the difference? The right answer generalizes appropriately — it doesn’t overreach. SAT wants figurative or thematic meaning
| Trap Answer Type | Example | Why It’s Wrong | |----------------|---------|----------------| | | “completely objective,” “never emotional” | Personal anthropology passages emphasize nuance. Right answers use words like “sometimes,” “may,” “often.” | | Reverse logic | “The author rejects personal experience” | Opposite of the passage’s main idea. | | Out-of-scope | “This research method is useless” | The SAT never endorses dismissing an entire academic approach. | | Literal misreading | “Grandmother’s hands” = “she lived with her grandmother” | Too literal. SAT wants figurative or thematic meaning. |
"Ethnographers work anywhere from communities in small villages to bustling cities, but work is always the same..." Correct Choice: (possessive plural pronoun). Reasoning: The pronoun refers back to the plural noun "Ethnographers"