PrepTest 115, Section 1, Question 15
Donna Haraway's Primate Visions is the most ambitious(431 more words not shown)
The passage suggests which one(10 more words not shown)
- AScientists have traditionally(9 more words not shown)
- BScientists have traditionally(11 more words not shown)
- CScientists have traditionally(19 more words not shown)
- DScientists have traditionally(16 more words not shown)
- EScientists have traditionally(7 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Keep the traditional approach separate from Haraway's alternative. Tradition gives us an active knower studying a passive object. Haraway challenges that division and wants more contributors recognized. We need a claim about the approach she is criticizing.
Working the answers
- A
The text says the goal may be to tame nature or to preserve it. That doesn't tell us scientists traditionally preferred one goal over the other.
- B
Haraway is the one criticizing what she sees as masculinist and colonialist assumptions. This assigns her challenge to the traditional scientists whose approach she questions.
- C
Treating primates as active contributors belongs to her alternative. We also aren't told that traditional scientists considered primates more active than other forms of life.
- D
Officials and laborers are contributors she wants recognized. That doesn't mean scientists deliberately tried to conceal them. A missing role and an intentional cover-up are different claims.
- ECorrect
The second paragraph describes nature as something separate from people and controllable by them. Distinct from us directly supports separate from themselves. It fits the active-knower/passive-object division the paragraph introduces.
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