PrepTest 101, Section 4, Question 26
Two impressive studies have reexamined Eric Williams' conclusion(454 more words not shown)
The information in the passage(7 more words not shown)
- Apeople of all(8 more words not shown)
- Bthe motives behind(7 more words not shown)
- Cthe moral vision(11 more words not shown)
- DBritish traditions of(6 more words not shown)
- EBritain's tradition of(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Their different explanations make this less straightforward than finding one person's view. Drescher emphasizes the broad popular movement and says economic interest alone doesn't explain it. Eltis emphasizes changing economic incentives. We need something both accept, even if they disagree about how to explain it.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Drescher’s movement drew people across social, political, and religious divisions (paragraph 2), so support across classes is explicit in his account.
For Eltis, connect the paragraphs. Drescher hasn't explained how class-divided England rallied behind the measures; Eltis provides an “answer to that question.” He accepts the broad support as the phenomenon to explain and supplies a different explanation for it. Support from all classes doesn't mean every individual supported abolition.
- B
Eltis emphasizes economic motives, but Drescher's account doesn't establish the same judgment that they were primarily responsible. Rejecting an economic-interest-only explanation doesn't tell us which motive he would rank first.
- C
No shared judgment that moral vision played a vital role is established. Drescher rejects explanations centered on that vision, while Eltis's account emphasizes economic change.
- D
This is a disagreement: Eltis challenges the idealization of liberty attributed to Drescher.
- E
Political activism is presented as at least part of Drescher's explanation, not necessarily the primary cause. Eltis isn't said to endorse that ranking either.
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