RC Drill Set 6, Question 2
There are two especially influential interpretations of nineteenth-century(430 more words not shown)
The passage suggests that histories(31 more words not shown)
- AThe former would(29 more words not shown)
- BThe former would(26 more words not shown)
- CThe former would(22 more words not shown)
- DThe former would(23 more words not shown)
- EThe former would(26 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Let's separate the two groups before comparing them. Liberal legal historians describe a shift toward government protection and explain feminist resistance through the equality-based case for voting rights. Labor historians instead blame privileged women for overlooking hardships that the laws addressed.
What we’re looking for
My first prediction concerns those different explanations of resistance. If the choices compare the histories of the laws more broadly, we'll still need support for both sides of the contrast.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The first half fits the “age of collectivism”: protections spread as society's view of the state changed. The ending also calls that account “benign evolutionary depictions.”
The second half takes a little more work. The labor historians describe supporters who “struggled continuously” against injustice, then blame “privileged women” seeking equality with “privileged men” for resisting reform. That connects hard-won reforms with opposition from advantaged groups. The word elites isn't required when the account supplies the privilege and resistance it describes.
- B
The legal historians do discuss a philosophical shift, but labor historians don't dismiss the practical consequences of the laws. Their criticism concerns hardships that privileged opponents allegedly ignored.
- C
Explaining feminists' suffrage strategy doesn't establish approval of their motives. The legal historians aren't explicitly endorsing the opposition they describe.
- D
Describing growing protection doesn't mean denying the existence of inequities. No such denial is attributed to legal historians.
- E
The negative effects on women are the newer feminist historians' contribution. Labor historians aren't described as opposing the laws because of those effects; they criticize the feminists who resisted them.
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