Literature and History Passages from All Released SAT® and PSAT Tests and Khan Academy
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Practice Test 1
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Literature
Title
The Strangeness of Beauty
Author
Lydia Minatoya
The Professor
The Schartz-Metterklume
Method
Charlotte Brontë
Saki
Practice Test 4
The Balloonist
MacDonald Harris
Practice Test 5
The Folded Leaf
William Maxwell
Practice Test 6
Nawabdin Electrician
Practice Test 7
Silas Marner
George Eliot
Practice Test 8
The Angel’s Game
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
History
Year
Title
Author
1999 Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf
Address to the Woman Suffrage
1857 Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1911 Report on Public Instruction
A vindication of the Rights of
Woman
Reflections on the Revolution in
2011 France
Rights of Man
1869
Talleyrand et al.
1791
Mary Wollstonecraft
1792
Edmund Burke
Thomas Paine
1790
1791
Catharine Beecher
Angelina E. Grimké
1837
1838
Abraham Lincoln
Henry David Thoreau
1838
1849
1861 Democracy in America, Volume 2 Alexis de Tocqueville
Enfranchisement of Women
Harriet Taylor Mill
Abraham Lincoln and
2009 Lincoln‑Douglas debates
Stephen Douglas
Speech delivered at the Second
Anti-Slavery Convention of
2001 American Women
Sara T. Smith
1840
1851
1959 Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism
Letters to Catharine Beecher
The Perpetuation of Our Political
Institutions: Address to the Young
Men’s Lyceum of Springfield,
Daniyal Mueenuddin 2009 Illinois
Resistance to Civil Government
Amy Tan
Practice Test 9 (Oct. 2017) The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia:
Mary Helen Stefaniak 2010 March of the Flag
Practice Test 10 (Oct. 2018) A Novel
Imperialism
Speech to Virginia ratifying
A Strange and Sublime Address Amit Chaudhuri
1991 convention
2017 April US (May Int'l)
1
Year
1938
1858
1838
Albert J. Beveridge
William Jennings Bryan
1898
1900
Patrick Henry
1788
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Literature and History Passages from All Released SAT® and PSAT Tests and Khan Academy
Literature
Test
2017 May
2018 March
2018 April
History
Author
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
The Beautiful Things That Heaven
Bears
Dinaw Mengestu
The Mysterious Portrait
Nikolai Gogol
Year
1997
2007
1835
2018 May
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
1900
2019 March
Through the Ivory Gate
Rita Dove
1992
2019 April
2
Title
The Book of Unknown Americans Cristina Henríquez
2019 May US
The Master
Colm Toibin
2019 May Int'l
Mrs. Mansley’s View
Edith Wharton
2019 October
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
2020 March
The Icarus Girl
Helen Oyeyemi
2014
Title
Speech to Virginia ratifying
convention
A Letter to the Women of
England on the Injustice of
Mental Subordination
American Notes for General
Circulation
What the Black Man Wants
To Consider the Subject of Reorganization of the Rebel States
Defense of the Kansas-Nebraska
Bill
The Crime against Kansas
Speech to the South African
Congress of Democrats
"Wind of Change" speech
(address to the South African
Parliament)
Reflections on the Revolution in
France
Author
Year
Edmund Pendleton
1788
Mary Robinson as Anne
Frances Randall
1799
Charles Dickens
Frederick Douglass
1842
1865
Richard H. Dana Jr.
1865
Stephen Douglas
Charles Sumner
1854
1856
Albert Luthuli
1958
Harold Macmillan
1960
Edmund Burke
1790
On the Adoption of the Universal
2004 Declaration of Human Rights
Eleanor Roosevelt
The Case against Human Rights Eric Posner
1891 The Man with the Muck Rake
Theodore Roosevelt
Milton Friedman & Rose
1913 Free to Choose
Friedman
Government is Good
Douglas J. Amy
History of the Rise, Progress and
Termination of the American
2005 Revolution, vol 2
Mercy Otis Warren
1948
2014
1906
1980
2011
1805
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Literature and History Passages from All Released SAT® and PSAT Tests and Khan Academy
Literature
Test
History
Author
2020 October
The Wife
Meg Wolitzer
2021 March
2021 April
The Age of Dreaming
The Fortunes
2021 May US
2021 May Int'l
Before We Visit the Goddess
What's Bred in the Bone
Nina Revoyr
Peter Ho Davies
Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni
Robertson Davies
2021 October
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor
Julie Iromuanya
2022 March
The Cat’s Table
Michael Ondaatje
2022 April
A Little Cloud
James Joyce
2022 May US
Footsteps on the Roof
Chen Cun
PSAT 2015 Practice Test 1
Emma
Jane Austen
PSAT 10/14/2015
In the Name of Salomé
Julia Alvarez
PSAT 10/28/2015
The Children's Book
A. S. Byatt
PSAT 2016 Practice Test 2
3
Title
Brewster: A Novel
Mark Slouka
Year
Title
Author
Speech of John Hossack,
Convicted of a
Violation of the Fugitive Slave
Law, before Judge
Drummond, of the United States
2003 District Court, Chicago, IL.
John Hossack
Let Us Do Justice to an
2008 Unfortunate People
Thomas Paul
2016 Africa and Freedom
Albert Lutuli
2016 Rerum Novarum
Pope Leo XIII
1985 For Freedom and Peace
Paul Robeson
Testimony before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee
Jackie Robinson
Judge Miriam
2015 Women on the Federal Bench
Cedarbaum
A Latina Judge's Voice
Sonia Sotomayor
2011 A Plea for Free Speech in Boston Frederick Douglass
Lucy Eldine Gonzalez
1914 The Principles of Anarchism
Parsons
Speech on a Bill for Shortening
1992 the Duration of Parliaments
Edmund Burke
Speech Delivered to Parliament John Saint Aubyn
1815 (The Gospel of) Wealth
Andrew Carnegie
What to the Slave is the Fourth of
2000 July?
Frederick Douglass
Independence Day address at
2009 New Harmony Hall
Frances Wright
Address to American Legion
Convention
Adlai E. Stevenson
2013 Resistance to Civil Government Henry David Thoreau
Year
1860
1841
1960
1891
1949
1949
1992
2001
1860
1905
1780
1784
1889
1852
1828
1952
1849
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Literature and History Passages from All Released SAT® and PSAT Tests and Khan Academy
Literature
Test
4
Title
History
Author
PSAT 10/15/2016
The Emperor of Ocean Park
Stephen L. Carter
PSAT 10/19/2016
Portrait in Sepia
Isabel Allende
PSAT 11/2/2016
Family Life
Akhil Sharma
Year
Title
Letter from (a) Birmingham Jail
There's Plenty of Room at the
Bottom: An Invitation to Enter a
New Field of Physics (Lecture to
2002 American Physical Society)
Atom Hauler
2001 The Fight for Conservation
Address of the King to Both
Houses of Parliament, 31 October
2014 1776
PSAT 10 Spring 2017
The Last Hurrah
Edwin O'Connor
1956
PSAT 10/11/2017
PSAT 10/14/2017
An Unnecessary Woman
Let the Great World Spin
Rabih Alameddine
Colum McCann
2013
2009
PSAT 10/25/2017
Night at the Fiestas
Kirstin Valdez Quade 2015
PSAT 10/10/2018
In the Light of What We Know
Zia Rahman
2014
PSAT 10/24/2018
Kindness
Yiyun Li
2010
Observations on the Nature of
Civil Liberty, the Principles of
Government, and the Justice and
Policy of the War with America
The Atlanta Exposition (Atlanta
Compromise) Address
The Souls of Black Folk
The Marshall Plan
I Am an American Day speech
Report of the Special Rapporteur
on the Promotion and Protection
of the Right to Freedom of
Opinion and Expression
(exercised through the Internet)
Internet Access is Not a Human
Right
Inaugural Address
What the Black Woman Thinks
about Women's Lib
Author
Year
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1963
Richard P. Feynman
Emily Sohn
Gifford Pinchot
1959
2005
1910
George III
1776
Richard Price
1776
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Dubois
George C. Marshall
Harold Ickes
1895
1903
1947
1941
Frank La Rue
2011
Vinton G. Cerf
George H. W. Bush
2012
1989
Toni Morrison
1971
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Literature and History Passages from All Released SAT® and PSAT Tests and Khan Academy
Literature
Test
5
Title
History
Author
Year
PSAT 8/9 Spring 2019
The Flowers of Shiraz
Goli Taraghi
2013
PSAT 10/16/2019
A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki
2013
PSAT 10/30/2019
Broken Chords
Yia Lee
2011
PSAT 10/14/2020
October Suite
Maxine Clair
2001
Title
"How Can White Women Include
Women of Color in Feminism?" Is
a Bad Question. Here's Why.
Presidential Inaugural Address
Letter to Horace Greeley at the
New-York Herald Tribune on the
National Women's Rights
Convention in Worcester,
Massachusetts
Remarks to 'A'
[No history passage]
Remarks to the National
Association of Radio and
Television
Broadcasters
Speech to Radio-Television News
Directors Association and
Foundation Convention
Second Treatise of Government
General Idea of the Revolution in
the 19th Century
Inaugural Address
Speech given to the
Constitutional Convention
Khan Diagnostic 1
Daisy Miller: A Study
Henry James
1879
Khan Diagnostic 2
Redburn: His First Voyage
Herman Melville
1849
Khan Level 2 Passage 1
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
1803
Khan Level 2 Passage 2
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
1899 Published letter
Khan Level 2 Passage 3
The Gossip of Valley View
L.M. Montgomery
Khan Level 2 Passage 4
Rose in Bloom
Louisa May Alcott
Published letter
1910 Letter to James Madison
Speech to the workers on the
1876 Panama Canal
Author
Year
Mia McKenzie
Nelson Mandela
2015
1994
'A' [Anonymous]
Horace Greeley
1850
1850
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1955
Edward R. Murrow
John Locke
1958
1689
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1851
John F. Kennedy
1961
Benjamin Franklin
The Federal Farmer, the
pseudonym of Richard
Henry Lee
Agrippa, the pseudonym
of James Winthrop
Thomas Jefferson
1787
Theodore Roosevelt
1906
1787
1787
1785
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Literature and History Passages from All Released SAT® and PSAT Tests and Khan Academy
Literature
Test
Khan Level 2 Passage 5
Title
History
Author
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne
Khan Level 2 Passage 6
6
Khan Level 3 Passage 1
Roughing It
Khan Level 3 Passage 2
Khan Level 3 Passage 3
The House of the Seven Gables
The Street That Got Mislaid
Khan Level 3 Passage 4
Khan Level 3 Passage 5
Khan Level 4 Passage 1
Villette
The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes
House of Mirth
Khan Level 4 Passage 2
The Scarlet Plague
Khan Level 4 Passage 3
The Looking Glass
Khan Level 4 Passage 4
The Voyage
Mark Twain
Year
Title
The Influence of Sea Power Upon
1873 History
Maritime Security, Sea Power,
and Trade
Speech to Senate
Editorial in Magyar Tribune,
"Shall There Be a League of
Nations?"
1872 Report on Manufactures
Author
A. T. Mahan
Year
1890
Tom Kelly
2014
Senator William E. Borah 1919
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay, writing as
Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851 Federalist Paper No. 5
Publius
Patrick Waddington 1954 Virginia Commonwealth Debates Patrick Henry
Virginia Commonwealth Debates James Madison
Charlotte Bronte
1853 Preface to Rights of Man
Thomas Paine
Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle
1892 Save the Redwoods
John Muir
Edith Wharton
1905 Senate speech
Everett Dirksen
Senate speech
Mike Mansfield
The Absurd Effort to Make the
Jack London
1915 World Over
William Graham Sumner
On the Education of Youth in
J.D. Beresford
1921 America
North Webster
Of the Mode of Education Proper
in a Republic
Benjamin Rush
Katherine Mansfield 1921
1920
1791
1787
1788
1788
1791
1920
1964
1964
1894
1790
1798
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