10 free PSAT/NMSQT practice questions in the real exam format, covering the official content areas, with an explanation for every answer.
PSAT/NMSQT Practice Test 8Tutor mode
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Craft and Structure
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
From Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)
Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.