PrepTest 111, Section 2, Question 2
Of the more than one thousand people who(452 more words not shown)
Based on the passage, which(25 more words not shown)
- AThey depict women(6 more words not shown)
- BThey depict women(5 more words not shown)
- CThey were suppressed(3 more words not shown)
- DThey were written(6 more words not shown)
- EThey were written(6 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Men? Most of the detailed discussion concerns women. The two-thirds figure is specifically about female memoirists, so we can't simply copy that percentage over to male writers.
What we’re looking for
I don't have a firm prediction about the men's accounts yet. We need a fact that applies to them or to the population more broadly, rather than something said only about the women.
Working the answers
- A
Women memoirists described themselves in socially prescribed roles. We aren't told that most men's memoirs portrayed women that way. This changes whose accounts we know about.
- B
Women participated in the Revolution, but that doesn't tell us whether most male memoirists wrote about them. Their participation and the contents of men's books are different facts.
- C
Sanctions threatened republicans. We don't know that most male memoirists were republicans, much less that most of their published works were suppressed.
- DCorrect
Here is the broader fact: writing fluently was limited to the upper class (paragraph 1). That statement applies to men as well as women. It makes upper-class authorship the most reasonable inference about most of the men's memoirs. This goes beyond a direct statement about male writers, but it has a specific basis. We aren't transferring the women's exact proportion or claiming every memoirist was wealthy.
- E
The information about who could write easily points toward upper-class authorship. Nothing supports a lower-class majority.
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