10 free PSAT/NMSQT practice questions in the real exam format, covering the official content areas, with an explanation for every answer.
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Craft and Structure
Which choice best describes the function of the third sentence in the overall structure of the text?
Katsushika Hokusai's woodblock print Under the Wave off Kanagawa, published around 1831, is famous for its towering wave and deep blue tones. Much of that blue came from Prussian blue, a synthetic pigment first made in Europe in the early 1700s. The pigment had become cheaper and more widely available in Japan only in the 1820s, and its vivid, lasting color quickly appealed to printmakers. Thus a work often seen as typically Japanese was shaped in part by global trade.