{"id":"cb_question_bank:d57f3db2-3616-4aa8-8daf-b6e75ec8dd1f","source_id":"cb_question_bank","source_item_id":"d57f3db2-3616-4aa8-8daf-b6e75ec8dd1f","external_id":"07b3f7e5-e57c-4a76-be24-674638b5d65c","ibn":null,"question_id":"b11bb2a3","program":"SAT","module":"english","domain_code":"CAS","domain":"Craft and Structure","skill_code":"WIC","skill":"Words in Context","difficulty":"E","score_band":2,"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 phrase “a void” most nearly mean?","stimulus":"The following text is adapted from Amy Lowell’s 1912 poem “Summer.” It is summer, glorious, deep-toned summer, The very crown of nature’s changing year When all her surging life is at its full. To me alone it is a time of pause, A void and silent space between two worlds, When inspiration lags, and feeling sleeps, Gathering strength for efforts yet to come.","stimulus_html":"<p>The following text is adapted from Amy Lowell’s 1912 poem “Summer.”</p>\n<blockquote class=\"dap_poemexcerpt\">\n<p>It is summer, glorious, deep-toned summer,</p>\n<p>The very crown of nature’s changing year</p>\n<p>When all her surging life is at its full.</p>\n<p>To me alone it is a time of pause,</p>\n<p><span><u>A void</u></span> and silent space between two worlds,</p>\n<p>When inspiration lags, and feeling sleeps,</p>\n<p>Gathering strength for efforts yet to come.</p>\n</blockquote>","stem_html":"<p>As used in the text, what does the phrase “a void” most nearly mean?</p>","rationale_html":"<p>Choice B is the best answer because as used in the text, a span of time is described as \"a void\" space, which most nearly means an empty or vacant one. In the text, the speaker describes summertime in counterintuitive terms: although nature’s \"surging life is at its full\" during the season, the speaker feels summer to be \"a time of pause, / A void and silent space between two worlds.\" The speaker says further that during summer, \"feeling sleeps / Gathering strength\" for future efforts. Thus, the speaker regards summer as an empty stretch of time, to be followed by a period of greater activity.</p><p>Choice A is incorrect. Although the text does present summer as a time of inactivity, it doesn’t characterize that inactivity as useless, or as having no purpose; in fact, the speaker regards summer as a time when \"feeling\" gathers \"strength for efforts yet to come.\" Choice C is incorrect. Although the text characterizes summer as a time \"when inspiration lags, and feeling sleeps,\" it doesn’t discuss the season’s relationship to the speaker’s memory or suggest that summer can easily be forgotten. Choice D is incorrect. In some contexts, \"void\" can mean devoid of, or lacking, a particular element, and such a lack could be conceived of as incompleteness. However, the text doesn’t portray summer as not being complete or whole; instead, it characterizes vacancy or inactivity as being an essential quality of the season, as experienced by the speaker.</p>","correct_answer":["B"],"has_media":false,"has_mathml":false,"has_table":false,"source_created_at":"2023-08-02T20:25:59.321000+00:00","source_updated_at":"2023-08-02T20:25:59.321000+00:00","options":[{"label":"A","content_html":"<p>A useless</p>","ord":0},{"label":"B","content_html":"<p>An empty</p>","ord":1},{"label":"C","content_html":"<p>A forgotten</p>","ord":2},{"label":"D","content_html":"<p>An incomplete</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}}