PrepTest 103, Section 4, Question 27
In England before 1660, a husband controlled his(440 more words not shown)
The passage suggests that the(22 more words not shown)
- AThe shift from(20 more words not shown)
- BDespite initial judicial(14 more words not shown)
- CAlthough marriage contracts(18 more words not shown)
- DChanging views about(17 more words not shown)
- EAlthough contractual rights(22 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Switch perspectives: the question asks about the traditional historians in the third sentence. They thought the contractual changes were a gain for women, reflecting changing views about democracy and property after the Restoration. We need their view, even though Staves spends most of the discussion challenging it.
Working the answers
- A
These historians don't give a late-eighteenth-century cutoff before which married women received no significant benefit. That's an added timeline.
- B
The gain matches their view, but “initial judicial resistance” adds something they aren't reported as saying. The discussion of judicial decisions belongs to Staves' criticism; we can't simply attach it to their account.
- C
This is Staves' side: surface changes and equality rhetoric didn't deliver the claimed benefit. It doesn't express the view of the historians she challenges.
- DCorrect
The third sentence connects “a gain for women” with evolving ideas about democracy and property (paragraph 1). This combines those two parts of the historians' position without adding a qualification or a new sequence of events.
- E
We aren't told these historians considered the gain small or compared most laws' benefits for men and women. Those qualifications might sound plausible, but they aren't part of the view the question identifies.
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