PrepTest 103, Section 4, Question 1
Opponents of compulsory national service claim that such(459 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(17 more words not shown)
- Aconfidence that individual(9 more words not shown)
- Bsatisfaction at how(9 more words not shown)
- Calarm that so(14 more words not shown)
- Dconcern that individual(8 more words not shown)
- Edissatisfaction at how(15 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Rights come with responsibilities. That's my first thought about how the writer connects individual liberty and citizenship. Living in a community gives us protections, but we also have to help support that community through things like taxes and, in the writer's view, needed service. We need an attitude that fits that relationship.
Working the answers
- A
Nothing ranks individual rights as our most important guarantees of freedom. This also leaves out the responsibilities that come with citizenship.
- B
We aren't given a history of rights successfully protecting people from government intrusion, or the writer's satisfaction with that history.
- C
The writer criticizes avoiding obligations to the community. That isn't a claim that citizens use rights to take advantage of one another.
- D
The writer doesn't call rights our only defense against government interference. The argument is about when government may legitimately require a sacrifice, not concern that citizens have too little protection.
- ECorrect
This is more specific than our initial prediction, but it matches the argument's criticism. The opponents invoke individual liberty to reject compulsory service; the writer says their view fails to account for the “social agreement” and its shared burdens. The dissatisfaction is with using rights to avoid those obligations, not with having individual rights at all.
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