PrepTest 114, Section 3, Question 18

Working the answers

• A
  Correct

  The bill's enactment is the event; the need for the bill gives its context; the legislator's biography supplies the individual background. Finally, the effects on society and the legislator's career cover both kinds of consequences.

  I initially hesitate because it doesn't separately say the report describes the event. But it begins as a report on the bill's enactment, so that event is already its subject. The other components are spelled out. That is a much closer match than the choices that replace major parts of the analysis with different tasks.

• B

  The doctor considers background and causes, but ends by recommending treatment. Abrams's investigation analyzes an event and its consequences; it isn't a prescription for what the individual should do next. We also lack effects on both the individual and a wider social setting.

• C

  Checking the setting's accuracy and comparing books are different jobs from explaining an event's context and consequences. The author's interest supplies one connection to an individual, but not the full pattern.

• D

  Introducing the vice president isn't a life history. Announcing that person's next projects also doesn't analyze the effects of the past activities on both the person and the corporation.

• E

  This moves from interviews to a screenplay and an imagined alternative outcome. It doesn't supply the proposed analysis of the actual event's social setting, individual background, and consequences. Historical subject matter alone doesn't make the work parallel.