PrepTest 107, Section 2, Question 25
Until about 1970, anyone who wanted to write(430 more words not shown)
According to the passage, the(22 more words not shown)
- Athe intent of(16 more words not shown)
- Bthe overall effectiveness(19 more words not shown)
- Cthe degree of(15 more words not shown)
- Dthe degree to(18 more words not shown)
- Ewhich of the(15 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The sources have limits, but they do answer some questions. Paragraph 1 says the “latter questions” can be answered by consulting them. Follow that reference back: how the law was intended to affect women and how it was thought to affect them. Intentions and beliefs are our prediction.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The laws' intent matches “intended to affect them”; commentators' opinions match “thought to affect them.” The word “them” refers to women. That doesn't require every law to apply only to women—a general law can also have an intended effect on them.
- B
Overall effectiveness concerns how the system actually worked. That goes beyond knowing what laws said or what commentators thought they did. Mentioning special statutes doesn't fix that unsupported first half.
- C
A woman's probability of winning concerns actual outcomes. We'd need case evidence to investigate it; the traditional sources don't establish it.
- D
Male relatives aren't identified as the people doing the intimidating. We also aren't given evidence from these sources about how often relatives successfully blocked women's rights.
- E
“In practice” is the problem. The writer says these sources cannot tell us how women were treated when trying to exercise shared rights. They therefore don't establish which rights were actually guaranteed only to men.
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