PrepTest 115, Section 1, Question 12
Thurgood Marshall's litigation of Brown v.(446 more words not shown)
The primary purpose of the(3 more words not shown)
- Areveal the details(11 more words not shown)
- Bexamine the effects(11 more words not shown)
- Cdescribe the strategy(6 more words not shown)
- Dprovide guidance to(8 more words not shown)
- Ecall attention to(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We've already identified the main point: Marshall's earlier work built toward the successful challenge in Brown. The question now asks what we're doing by telling that story. We're explaining how the legal strategy developed and contributed to the victory.
Working the answers
- A
We do get earlier career details, which makes this tempting. But they aren't simply a before-Brown snapshot. They're selected to explain how Marshall prepared the court and developed the argument that later succeeded. A leaves out that connection.
- B
Discrimination's effects matter to Marshall's case, but we're following his legal strategy. We don't get a general examination of how the doctrine affected people's lives.
- CCorrect
The successful argument is the challenge in Brown. The strategy includes practical cases that exposed inequality and the use of sociological data to show a wider pattern. Describing how those steps contributed captures the purpose.
- D
This explains what Marshall did. It doesn't instruct other litigators to follow a method, even if they might learn something from the account.
- E
This includes the strategy but gives it the wrong purpose: drawing attention to the doctrine's unsoundness. The doctrine is the target of Marshall's work; the main interest here is how his challenge developed and succeeded. E makes that central explanation merely a way to criticize the doctrine.
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