PrepTest 125, Section 3, Question 7
Most of what has been written about Thurgood(466 more words not shown)
According to the passage, some(9 more words not shown)
- Athe ideology Marshall(5 more words not shown)
- Brecent public interest(1 more words not shown)
- Cthe use of(6 more words not shown)
- Dthe use of(5 more words not shown)
- Ethe set of(6 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The criticism concerns bringing sociological and psychological evidence into court. Check the third paragraph: immediately after explaining that tactic, the text says some legal scholars have criticized it. We need that particular objection.
Working the answers
- A
Their criticism targets a method of supporting decisions, not Marshall's ideology.
- B
Recent public interest campaigns aren't identified as the object of their criticism.
- C
Conservative lawyers' use of the techniques appears in the next paragraph. It isn't what these scholars criticize.
- DCorrect
Psychological statistics are part of the evidence they object to: nonlegal material used where legal principles appear inconclusive.
- E
Their objection isn't to the criteria for selecting litigants.
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