In English history Queen Elizabeth I is the prime example of a monarch who, by ensuring the success and longevity of her country, has attained immortality for herself.
I thought that it’s of her country but the results say that there is no error.
Why do you think “of her country” is wrong?
Isn’t a monarch the subject?
It is correct
Why would it be wrong and how would you rephrase it?
I would say his country (because of monarch).
But the monarch is a she.
EDIT: I see from your other posts that you’re not a native English speaker. Let me explain in some further depth: English does not have as rigid a gender system as some languages (like perhaps Czech). So a word like ‘monarch’ can be either masculine or feminine depending on the person it refers to.
Contrast French, where you have “Madame le president” - president takes a masculine article even if the holder of the office is feminie. There is no parallel construction in English. If Hillary Clinton were elected president, you would still say “the president, she…”
I understand the confusion more clearly now, and you are right to be confused.
If Elizabeth is an example of “a monarch who . . .” then monarch is being used generically, with no implied gender. Note that “monarch,” not Elizabeth, is the antecedent of the possessive pronoun. Traditional English would indeed require the masculine pronoun (“his”), because we have traditionally used masculine pronouns when the gender is indefinite.
One problem is that the use of masculine pronouns that way is hotly contested among linguists and other people concerned with the changing roles of women.
The other problem is that the sentence uses another pronoun (“herself”) to refer to “monarch.” So it seems that the sentence really is referring only to female monarchs – despite the fact that male monarchs also have ensured the success and longevity of their countries. It makes a kind of sense, since Elizabeth is a woman, but that’s not really the logic of the sentence.
Here’s another way of thinking about it. I assume you don’t have the option of marking “her country” and “herself” as both incorrect. If you keep one, you have to keep the other.
So, on further consideration, I consider this a badly written problem.
The sentence is a bit of a mess tbqh.
Exactly my point. Only, it doesn’t seem so at first glance. It is documented that SAT problems sometimes have errors. They are usually subtle, but thats what good writers are attuned to. As you know, one missed problem can mean the difference between an 800 and a 760. When it’s your fault, that’s one thing. When it’s the test writer’s … Pshh