PrepTest 110, Section 4, Question 17
Philosopher Denise Meyerson views the Critical Legal Studies(440 more words not shown)
The author's primary purpose in(4 more words not shown)
- Aevaluate divergent legal(1 more words not shown)
- Bexplain how a(2 more words not shown)
- Cadvocate a new(4 more words not shown)
- Ddescribe a challenge(5 more words not shown)
- Erefute claims made(3 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Whose objections have we been reading? Meyerson's. The writer is describing her response to CLS. Keeping those voices separate gives us the prediction: a description of one thinker's challenge to a school of thought.
Working the answers
- A
Different legal views appear, but the writer isn't independently weighing competing doctrines. We follow what Meyerson argues, denies, and replies.
- B
The disagreement is described; its origins aren't. We don't learn how the controversy arose.
- C
The writer doesn't propose a new interpretation of legal tradition. Meyerson's objections are the subject being explained.
- DCorrect
CLS is the school of thought, and Meyerson supplies the challenge. The opening identifies her disagreement, and the remaining paragraphs explain her reasons.
- E
Refutations appear within Meyerson's argument. But reporting her criticism isn't the same as the writer independently refuting claims from various scholars. This shifts the role of the writer from explaining her position to making those attacks.
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