PrepTest 142, Section 3, Question 25
This passage is adapted from a review of(459 more words not shown)
It can be inferred that(22 more words not shown)
- ATheir common goal(17 more words not shown)
- BTheir common goal(9 more words not shown)
- CTheir common goal(14 more words not shown)
- DThey were more(13 more words not shown)
- EThey did not(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The reviewer accepts that these groups shared an interest in liberal reform. The disagreement is about what that shared goal establishes. García treats it as grounds for downplaying differences; the reviewer points to fierce controversies and says debate, not consensus, characterized the history.
What we’re looking for
So the answer should preserve the differences as important despite the broad common goal.
Working the answers
- A
The earlier activists are described as less militant than the later Chicanos, but the reviewer does not say the common goal of liberal reform caused that difference. A adds an explanation for the comparison.
- BCorrect
The reviewer says García's emphasis on consensus conceals the full significance of the groups' differences. Their shared reform goal therefore did not outweigh those political divisions in the reviewer's account.
- C
This gives us the consensus reading the reviewer criticizes. A broad shared goal did not eliminate the fierce disagreements about immigration and cultural identity.
- D
The two organizations illustrate opposing approaches, but their size is not quantified. We cannot turn the existence of two positions into a roughly equal division of activists between them.
- E
The reviewer does not assess whether the groups fully achieved their goals, much less attribute any failure to their disagreements. This introduces both an outcome and its cause.
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