Sat 2015 Practice Test #1 Answer Explanations

Choice D is the best answer.
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a powerful means to build stronger bonds with one’s closest peers.” 
Choice A is incorrect because even though the authors state that some 
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is no evidence in the passage that people view shopping as a form of 
self-expression. Choice B is incorrect because the passage implies 
that shopping is an expensive habit. Choice C is incorrect because the 
passage states that most people have purchased and received gifts, 
but it never implies that people are 
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to reciprocate the 
gift-giving process. 

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Choice A is the best answer.
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people value gift-giving because it may strengthen their relationships 
with others: “Many relish the opportunity to buy presents because 
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closest peers.” 
Choices B, C, and D do not provide the best evidence for the answer 
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discuss how people often buy gifts that the recipients would not 
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givers often fail to consider the recipients’ preferences. Choice D is 
incorrect because lines 44-47 suggest that the cost of a gift may not 
correlate to a recipient’s appreciation of it. 
QUESTION 15 
Choice A is the best answer.
The “deadweight loss” mentioned in the 
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a gift-giver would pay for something and what a gift-recipient would 
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psychologists, whose research “has found that people often struggle 
to take account of others’ perspectives — their insights are subject 
to egocentrism, social projection, and multiple attribution errors” 
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that social psychologists would expect a disconnect between gift-
givers and gift-recipients, not that they would question it, be disturbed 
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QUESTION 16