PrepTest 110, Section 1, Question 19
When women are persecuted on account of their(438 more words not shown)
According to the passage, which(17 more words not shown)
- ABoth documents are(21 more words not shown)
- BBoth documents explicitly(9 more words not shown)
- CBoth documents recommend(12 more words not shown)
- DBoth documents suggest(13 more words not shown)
- EBoth documents describe(17 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Both documents take a broad approach to social group. The Convention adds a flexible safety net; the Handbook gives an expansive interpretation of it. That shared breadth is a promising starting point.
What we’re looking for
Keep the sources separate as we check the choices. The writer applies the definition to women, and a later Executive Committee report explicitly recommends that application. Those aren't automatically statements made in both documents named in this question.
Working the answers
- A
Influence on asylum-law interpretation doesn't establish an improvement in women's status within member countries. We aren't told that both documents will produce that broader result.
- B
The Convention does not explicitly name gender-based persecution. Its broader category can accommodate it, but that is different from explicitly supporting this particular application.
- C
The explicit recommendation about women comes from the 1985 Executive Committee report. We aren't told that the Convention and Handbook both make that recommendation.
- DCorrect
The Convention's category can address “unanticipated situations,” and the Handbook offers an “expansive interpretation” consistent with that intention. Both allow the category to reach a wide variety of asylum-seekers rather than only a precisely listed set.
- E
Similar background and social status are part of the Handbook's description. The Convention leaves the category's precise boundaries undefined; we aren't given the same description there. Support in one document isn't support in both.
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