ACT English Practice Question

Read the following excerpt. **Paj ntaub is increasingly made in lighter, softer shades today.** She’s been creating stitched textiles since she was a young woman living in northern Laos. For the past several decades, she’s been designing paj ntaub in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she also teaches her craft. The writer is considering deleting the bolded sentence. Should the sentence be kept or deleted?

1. A.Kept, because it compares Pang Xiong’s embroidery style with that of modern paj ntaub.
2. B.Kept, because it places the subject of the essay in a modern context.
3. C.Deleted, because it detracts from the paragraph’s focus on the various styles of ancient Hmong needlework arts.
4. D.Deleted, because it adds a detail that is irrelevant to the paragraph’s introduction of Pang Xiong’s connection to paj ntaub.