Digital SAT: Summary Notes 1

1. While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• The philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty emphasized embodied perception.
• He argued that perception is shaped by bodily experience.
• He rejected the idea that the mind passively receives information.
• His work connected perception with physical interaction in the world.

The student wants to explain how Merleau-Ponty viewed perception. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes?

2.

• The Red Queen hypothesis describes evolutionary competition between species.
• Organisms must continually adapt to survive against evolving rivals.
• The hypothesis is named after a character in Through the Looking-Glass.
• Evolutionary change may occur without long-term improvement.

The student wants to highlight the central idea of the Red Queen hypothesis.

3.

• The writer Milan Kundera often explored memory and identity.
• His novels combine philosophical reflection with narrative fiction.
• He argued that humor and irony can reveal political truths.
• His work frequently examines life under authoritarian systems.

The student wants to explain how Kundera used literary techniques to examine politics.

4.

• The Panspermia proposes that life originated beyond Earth.
• Microbial life may have traveled through space on meteoroids.
• The hypothesis addresses how life spread, not how it began.
• Some scientists study extremophiles to evaluate the hypothesis.

The student wants to clarify a limitation of the panspermia hypothesis.

5.

• The artist Anni Albers incorporated geometric abstraction into weaving.
• She viewed textiles as both functional and artistic.
• Her work was influenced by the Bauhaus movement.
• She experimented with texture and material structure.

The student wants to emphasize what made Albers’s approach to textiles distinctive.