PrepTest 116, Section 1, Question 8
In many bilingual communities of Puerto Rican Americans(435 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(23 more words not shown)
- AWhere do the(28 more words not shown)
- BWhat language or(36 more words not shown)
- CWhat language or(29 more words not shown)
- DWhat topic do(23 more words not shown)
- EWhat topic do(20 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Which question did the researchers not ask? That's all this long stem wants. In the student study, researchers supplied two situational factors, asked for the third, and asked which language or mix the students would use.
What we’re looking for
We need to distinguish what they investigated from what they got everyone to agree on. A study can ask a question without getting one agreed answer.
Working the answers
- A
They asked this. Given parent and child plus the topic of being a good son or daughter, the students supplied home as the setting.
- B
They asked for the language choice too. The students chose Spanish only for that completed situation.
- C
They asked which language or mix the priest and parishioner would use at the beach. The students agreed less, but that doesn't mean the question wasn't asked.
- DCorrect
The topic was given in the parent-and-child example; Spanish was the language the students chose afterward. The researchers aren't described as starting with Spanish and asking what those people would discuss. They could discuss many topics in Spanish. Knowing the language chosen for one supplied topic doesn't give us this reverse investigation.
- E
This can initially seem missing because we aren't told what topic the students chose. But reread the beach example: it produced more disagreement over the conversation’s likely subject (paragraph 2). That tells us they were asked about the topic, even though they didn't agree. E was investigated; D was not.
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