{"id":"cb_question_bank:d34656ff-c282-4f30-af0b-029471fd8002","source_id":"cb_question_bank","source_item_id":"d34656ff-c282-4f30-af0b-029471fd8002","external_id":"de5605c6-c05a-4384-b569-7efefdfccbd2","ibn":null,"question_id":"82b7c3b2","program":"SAT","module":"english","domain_code":"CAS","domain":"Craft and Structure","skill_code":"WIC","skill":"Words in Context","difficulty":"E","score_band":1,"answer_type":"mcq","answer_source":"key","layout_warning":null,"form_id":null,"module_number":null,"position":null,"stem":"As used in the text, what does the word “marked” most nearly mean?","stimulus":"The following text is from Booth Tarkington’s 1921 novel Alice Adams . Mrs. Adams had always been fond of vases, she said, and every year her husband’s Christmas present to her was a vase of one sort or another—whatever the clerk showed him, marked at about twelve or fourteen dollars.","stimulus_html":"<p>The following text is from Booth Tarkington’s 1921 novel <em>Alice Adams</em>.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mrs. Adams had always been fond of vases, she said, and every year her husband’s Christmas present to her was a vase of one sort or another—whatever the clerk showed him, <span><u>marked</u></span> at about twelve or fourteen dollars.</p>\n</blockquote>","stem_html":"<p>As used in the text, what does the word “marked” most nearly mean?</p>","rationale_html":"<p>Choice B is the best answer. The text suggests that Mrs. Adam’s typical Christmas present from her husband was a vase that cost, or was \"priced at,\" about twelve or fourteen dollars.</p><p>Choice A is incorrect. This isn’t the meaning of \"marked\" as used here. It wouldn’t make sense to say that a vase was \"staged at twelve or fourteen dollars.\" Choice C is incorrect. This isn’t the meaning of \"marked\" as used here. It wouldn’t make sense to say that a vase was \"stained at twelve or fourteen dollars.\" Choice D is incorrect. This isn’t the meaning of \"marked\" as used here. It wouldn’t make sense to say that a vase was \"watched at twelve or fourteen dollars.\"</p>","correct_answer":["B"],"has_media":false,"has_mathml":false,"has_table":false,"source_created_at":"2023-08-02T20:25:59.377000+00:00","source_updated_at":"2023-08-02T20:25:59.377000+00:00","options":[{"label":"A","content_html":"<p>Staged</p>","ord":0},{"label":"B","content_html":"<p>Priced</p>","ord":1},{"label":"C","content_html":"<p>Stained</p>","ord":2},{"label":"D","content_html":"<p>Watched</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}}