PrepTest 127, Section 4, Question 22
During most of the nineteenth century, many French(465 more words not shown)
It can be inferred from(16 more words not shown)
- Acommitted to removing(13 more words not shown)
- Bunaware of the(10 more words not shown)
- Cconcerned with improving(11 more words not shown)
- Dmore open to(13 more words not shown)
- Emore inclined to(18 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Keep the dates straight. We're being asked about the legislators who passed laws in the 1880s, not those who put forward the two earlier proposals. The final paragraph gives us their actions: they founded schools for women, abolished fees, required attendance, and used the older proposals to justify reform.
What we’re looking for
That doesn't tell us every belief they held. Let's see what we can reasonably infer from those actions.
Working the answers
- A
No change removing domestic skills from the curriculum is specified. Establishing schools for women doesn't by itself tell us that those subjects were eliminated.
- B
They recalled the earlier proposals. Nothing says they were unaware of the difficulties earlier reformers faced.
- CCorrect
Abolishing fees helps people who otherwise might not be able to afford school. That supports a concern with economic access, alongside the concern with women's access shown by the new schools. This does require an inference: the text gives us the policy, and we connect it to the financial barrier it removes. Economic strata simply means different economic levels.
- D
Successful legislation doesn't establish that these legislators were more willing to compromise. We're not given negotiations or a comparison of either group's openness to compromise.
- E
Nothing compares the two groups' willingness to involve religious authorities. We can't infer that increased role from the later laws.
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