SAT Practiceb6d902ea-2453-43ee-99d4-d234a13bfa07

Practice one SAT question at a time

Questions come from the Bluebook question bank. Made by Iskaa303 (Iskander Madikhan).

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

  • The farm-size transition hypothesis predicts that economic pressures associated with modernization result in smaller farms amalgamating into larger-scale commercial farms.
  • Masters et al. (2013): The average farm size in Asia “already has or will soon begin to rise.”
  • Promkhambut et al. (2023) argue that small rice farms in Thailand have adopted modern farming methods without a significant scaling-up of farm size.
  • Promkhambut et al.: “The persistence of [small] rice farms [in Thailand] does not represent a ‘failure’ to modernize...or a ‘truncated’ transition—it is a response to modernization.”

The student wants to make and support a claim regarding the applicability of the farm-size transition hypothesis to Thailand. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?