PrepTest 108, Section 4, Question 20

What we’re looking for

Working the answers

• A

  A general call for racial unity doesn't distinguish the two periods. We need something more closely tied to how the earlier organizers spoke.

• B
  Correct

  Look at the sweeping demand for workers everywhere to revolt and achieve a final global victory. That's the “extreme rhetoric” and vision of a “new world” described in paragraph 3. It fits the Third Period much better than the later cautious effort to attract moderates. The useful distinction here is the character of the rhetoric, not just the issue being discussed.

• C

  This is tempting because it matches our first thought about racial concerns. But the account doesn't identify a call to overcome racism at the highest levels of government as a characteristic Third Period message. It does directly describe the earlier rhetoric as extreme and focused on a new world. B has the stronger basis for this comparison. An issue that attracted workers isn't automatically the particular statement their organizers made.

• D

  Common ground with liberal causes fits the Popular Front's alliances with liberal political forces. That's the later period.

• E

  This cautious warning about slow progress is a better fit for the later appeal to moderates than for the earlier promises of dramatic transformation.