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ACT Reading Test - Social Science Passage - Practice Test 6
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This passage is adapted from Women, Wealth, and Giving: The Virtuous Legacy of the Boom Generation, by Margaret May Damen and Niki Nicastro McCuistion.




ACT Reading Test - Social Science Passage - Practice Test 6
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1. The authors link all of the following to what anthropologist Margaret Mead refers to as “post-menopausal zest” EXCEPT:
2. According to the passage, Marie C. Wilson would most likely agree with which of the following statements?
3. The passage makes all of the following assertions about women EXCEPT that:
4. Which of the following individuals urged boomer women to engage in pursuits that bring them a greater sense of meaning, joy and balance?
5. The authors suggest that the era when women boomers in America outnumber men boomers is during:
6. The primary purpose of the passage’s final paragraph is to:
7. The authors attribute the fact that between 80 and 90 percent of women will one day be in charge of family finances to the fact that:
8. The authors use the example of women’s donations to political candidates in record numbers to demonstrate all of the following EXCEPT:
9. All of the following could serve as synonyms for unprecedented, as it is used in line 39, EXCEPT:
10. According to the passage, women make about 90 percent of the decisions concerning the purchase of: