PrepTest 114, Section 3, Question 20
In explaining the foundations of the discipline known(436 more words not shown)
Based on the passage, which(18 more words not shown)
- Athe effect of(17 more words not shown)
- Bthe effect of(21 more words not shown)
- Cthe effect of(20 more words not shown)
- Dthe effect of(18 more words not shown)
- Ethe effect of(20 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We want the least clear example of circumstances shaping a person and influencing later choices. Think of the read-through examples: growing up with public assistance or around a family business could shape someone's concerns and commitments.
What we’re looking for
My prediction is a description that does much less to show that formative connection. The test is how well it illustrates Abrams's idea, not whether the situation sounds dramatic.
Working the answers
- A
Political injustice can shape a person's commitments and lead to working for reform. This connects a social experience with later action.
- B
Growing up in an agricultural region can shape familiarity, opportunities, and the eventual choice of an agricultural career. It fits the conditions under which someone comes of age.
- CCorrect
This mainly tells us where the person lives and where the friends are. It doesn't show much about how the community formed the person's identity, capacities, or commitments that now guide a choice. The other answers make that connection more clearly. This isn't a rule that location can never be a contingency; the particular visit described is simply the weakest illustration.
- D
The parents' religion provides a social setting and a set of ideas that can shape the person's own practice. That fits the account.
- E
Early financial hardship can develop a commitment to helping others with the same difficulty. Household economic conditions are expressly among Abrams's examples, and this shows their effect on later action.
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