PrepTest 107, Section 2, Question 24
Until about 1970, anyone who wanted to write(430 more words not shown)
According to the passage, quantitative(18 more words not shown)
- Awhat were the(8 more words not shown)
- Bwhat were the(11 more words not shown)
- Cwhat was the(17 more words not shown)
- Dhow medieval women's(7 more words not shown)
- Ehow best to(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
How were women actually treated? The studies would help answer whether women could use their rights, whether intimidation blocked their privileges, and whether they evaded restrictions. Those are questions about real effects, not just what the laws said.
Working the answers
- A
Stated intentions can be learned from the traditional sources. The proposed studies address what happened in practice.
- B
Hidden motives are different from actual effects. Court outcomes don't necessarily reveal lawmakers' unconscious reasons for writing a law.
- C
The influence on modern legal institutions isn't the inquiry. We're investigating women's lives under medieval law.
- DCorrect
“Really affected” matches the stated goal of discovering the law’s practical effects on women (paragraph 1). Studying many cases would help identify patterns in their experiences.
- E
Categorizing the documents might help organize the research, but it isn't what the research aims to discover. The question is about women's treatment, not how to sort the records.
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