Don’t worry about the question itself yet. Go straight to the “best evidence” lines.
- 21 (A) says “Panicked residents” suspected “everything from cosmic rays to sand-flea eggs to
fallout from H-bomb tests.” Read through all four answer choices for question 20. Do you see
any answers that those lines support? Notice 20 (B) pretty much says the same thing? Draw a line
connecting 21 (A) with 20 (B). Nothing else from question 20 matches with 21 (A), so let’s
move on to 21 (B). - 21 (B) says As summer rolled on, reports of pitting decreased everywhere and the country
moved on to building backyard fallout shelters. Looking through the answers for question 20,
there’s nothing that is supported by these lines, so we can eliminate 21 (B). It doesn’t matter
what the question asks; if there’s no support, the answer cannot be right. - 21 (C) says “The idea came from Gustave Le Bon, a French theorist trying to explain the
strange behavior of large groups during the French Revolution, in which average citizens