PrepTest 114, Section 3, Question 22
One of the greatest challenges facing medical students(481 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(21 more words not shown)
- Aa sense of(20 more words not shown)
- Ba faculty of(22 more words not shown)
- Ca capacity to(16 more words not shown)
- Dan ability to(23 more words not shown)
- Ean ability to(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
My first thought is that moral imagination means really thinking through the ethical issues in a story. Let's make that more precise by looking at the surrounding sentence: we engage with a story that isn't our own but still recognize why it matters. We're trying to understand someone else's experience.
Working the answers
- A
Curiosity might keep someone following a plot, but that doesn't capture the ethical and personal engagement described here. Wondering what happens next isn't necessarily empathizing with the people involved.
- B
Picking a side is the extra requirement. Readers consider another viewpoint; they aren't required to identify with one side of a controversy.
- C
Understanding a dilemma fits. Inventing creative solutions goes beyond what we're told readers must do. They can engage with the conflict without solving it.
- DCorrect
The story is “not as one's own” but is still recognizable and worthy of attention. The next discussion of adopting another person's viewpoint develops the same idea. D captures understanding and empathizing with people in a moral situation without being a participant yourself.
- E
Acting on different principles isn't the same as reading and thinking about another perspective. And the point is understanding people, not variety for its own sake.
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