PrepTest 108, Section 1, Question 14
In recent years, a growing belief that the(460 more words not shown)
The passage suggests that Williams,(17 more words not shown)
- APersonal stories are(15 more words not shown)
- BPersonal stories are(16 more words not shown)
- CPersonal stories are(16 more words not shown)
- DPersonal stories are(17 more words not shown)
- EPersonal stories are(18 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
These scholars favor personal stories because they might get insiders to listen to people excluded by the established legal language. The expected benefit is empathy across differences in background and training. Look for that benefit, not simply any flattering claim about stories.
Working the answers
- A
Their proposal offers an alternative to objectivist discourse. They don't recommend stories because stories adhere more closely to objectivist principles.
- BCorrect
The ending explicitly describes bridging differences in experience and education (paragraph 3). Personal narratives could create an emotional connection that the established discourse fails to create. That's why the scholars would see stories as better able to reduce the importance of those differences.
- C
The direction is backward. Alternative narratives can “disturb its tranquility”—the legal establishment's tranquility. Disrupting complacency is presented as part of the benefit, not something the stories would prevent.
- D
Improved factual accuracy isn't the comparative advantage claimed. The proposed stories make excluded experiences heard; we aren't told they reconstruct facts more accurately than traditional narratives.
- E
All observers are influenced by expectations, values, and beliefs. That doesn't establish that personal stories are more influenced by them than other discourse. E adds an unsupported comparison.
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