{"id":"cb_question_bank:7163f7c0-4491-4882-83cc-4e76f593cfff","source_id":"cb_question_bank","source_item_id":"7163f7c0-4491-4882-83cc-4e76f593cfff","external_id":"c8d42223-bd50-4837-a884-755ec29e7a39","ibn":null,"question_id":"5d3177aa","program":"SAT","module":"english","domain_code":"EOI","domain":"Expression of Ideas","skill_code":"SYN","skill":"Rhetorical Synthesis","difficulty":"M","score_band":5,"answer_type":"mcq","answer_source":"key","layout_warning":null,"form_id":null,"module_number":null,"position":null,"stem":"The student wants to present the significance of the Hart-Celler Act to an audience unfamiliar with the history of US immigration. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?","stimulus":"While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: In the early 1960s, the US had a strict national-origins quota system for immigrants. The number of new immigrants allowed from a country each year was based on how many people from that country lived in the US in 1890. This system favored immigrants from northern Europe. Almost 70% of slots were reserved for immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany. The 1965 Hart-Celler Act abolished the national-origins quota system.","stimulus_html":"<p>While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the early 1960s, the US had a strict national-origins quota system for immigrants.</li>\n<li>The number of new immigrants allowed from a country each year was based on how many people from that country lived in the US in 1890.</li>\n<li>This system favored immigrants from northern Europe.</li>\n<li>Almost 70% of slots were reserved for immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany.</li>\n<li>The 1965 Hart-Celler Act abolished the national-origins quota system.</li>\n</ul>","stem_html":"<p>The student wants to present the significance of the Hart-Celler Act to an audience unfamiliar with the history of US immigration. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?</p>","rationale_html":"<p>Choice D is the best answer. The sentence presents the significance of the Hart-Celler Act to an audience unfamiliar with the history of US immigration, noting that the 1965 act abolished the national-origins quota system and explaining why that mattered, historically: because the old quota system had favored immigrants from northern Europe. </p><p>Choice A is incorrect. The sentence describes an aspect of immigration policy at the time the Hart-Celler Act was proposed; it doesn’t present the significance of the Hart-Celler Act to an audience unfamiliar with the history of US immigration. Choice B is incorrect. The sentence describes an aspect of immigration policy before the Hart-Celler Act; it doesn’t describe or present the significance of the act to an audience unfamiliar with the history of US immigration. Choice C is incorrect. While the sentence indicates that the Hart-Celler Act abolished the old quota system, it doesn’t explain the act or the quota system to an audience unfamiliar with the history of US immigration. </p>","correct_answer":["D"],"has_media":false,"has_mathml":false,"has_table":false,"source_created_at":"2023-08-02T20:25:59.353000+00:00","source_updated_at":"2023-08-02T20:25:59.353000+00:00","options":[{"label":"A","content_html":"<p>Almost 70% of slots were reserved for immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany at the time the Hart-Celler Act was proposed.</p>","ord":0},{"label":"B","content_html":"<p>Prior to the Hart-Celler Act, new immigration quotas were based on how many people from each country lived in the US in 1890.</p>","ord":1},{"label":"C","content_html":"<p>The quota system in place in the early 1960s was abolished by the 1965 Hart-Celler Act.&nbsp;</p>","ord":2},{"label":"D","content_html":"<p>The 1965 Hart-Celler Act abolished the national-origins quota system, which favored immigrants from northern Europe.</p>","ord":3}],"attribution":{"source_id":"cb_question_bank","source_name":"College Board digital SAT question bank (community dump)","rights_holder":"College Board","canonical_url":"https://satsuitequestionbank.collegeboard.org/","retrieved_from":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdn522/sat-question-bank/main/data/cb-digital-questions.json","attribution":"SAT practice questions © College Board, from the official SAT Suite Question Bank. Retrieved via the community dump at github.com/mdn522/sat-question-bank.","disclaimer":"SAT® and PSAT/NMSQT® are trademarks registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, does not sponsor, and does not endorse this project.","license":"College Board copyright; source repository carries no licence. Local use only.","redistributable":false,"item_count":2017}}