Questions cross-scored with social studies

from practice test #2

• Many questions on the PSAT are from social studies/history passages.
Some are from historical documents and others are from modern articles
about the social sciences. While not a history test, the questions will test
your reading, writing, and language skills in a social studies context.
Reading complex passages and primary source documents in social studies
will help you in this area.

To see examples of passages and questions, go to the following numbers in

the practice test posted on this site.

• 10-18: These come from a 2013 article “The End of Power.”

• 29-38: These come from a passage from Henry David Thoreau and Martin
Luther King, Jr.