PrepTest 142, Section 3, Question 22
This passage is adapted from a review of(459 more words not shown)
According to the passage, the(22 more words not shown)
- Asought the political(8 more words not shown)
- Bfought for equal(8 more words not shown)
- Cfavored a more(5 more words not shown)
- Dencouraged Mexican Americans(6 more words not shown)
- Eencouraged Mexican Americans(8 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Keep the organizations straight. The League favored a civil-rights strategy of assimilation into the U.S. political and cultural mainstream. The Congress advocated bilingual education and equal rights for resident aliens. The question asks for a distinguishing feature of the League, so we want its assimilation strategy.
Working the answers
- A
Joining the mainstream culturally is not the same as selecting whichever political goals other citizens find most popular. No comparison of public preferences is given.
- B
Equal rights for resident aliens is expressly attributed to the Congress. This assigns the other organization's stated position to the League.
- C
The reviewer mentions controversies over immigration policy, but does not identify a more liberal immigration policy as the League's position. We cannot fill in its side of that debate from the fact that a debate occurred.
- D
The League's stated strategy is assimilation, not encouraging Spanish instead of English. Even the Congress's bilingual-education position is not a Spanish-rather-than-English policy; bilingual means involving both languages.
- ECorrect
Encouraging adoption of U.S. culture matches the League's strategy of assimilation into the “political and cultural mainstream.” The answer captures the stated approach without requiring us to invent a more specific language policy or a complete rejection of Mexican identity.
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