PrepTest 145, Section 1, Question 18
Passage A During the 1990s, the study of(489 more words not shown)
Passage A(268 more words not shown)
Passage B(229 more words not shown)
The summary given in the(28 more words not shown)
- Aseeking to uncover(6 more words not shown)
- Bexploring how a(7 more words not shown)
- Ctrying to rediscover(4 more words not shown)
- Devaluating the role(7 more words not shown)
- Earguing that gender(7 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Look at the specified sentences, not just B's overall subject. Augustus treats the Roman family as the foundation of peace and stability, assigns women the roles of wives and mothers, and reinforces those roles through marital laws. This is a domestic ideal shaping public policy.
What we’re looking for
Now match that concrete example to A's description of the approaches historians take.
Working the answers
- A
A uses the history of women per se for the project focused on individual women. The cited sentences instead explain assigned roles and the laws supporting them. They don't reconstruct particular women's lives.
- BCorrect
A explicitly describes studying how an “imagined domesticity” or separate sphere for women shaped culture and politics. B's domestic roles aren't merely private expectations: Augustus makes them part of his political program and backs them with legal incentives. That supplies the connection between domesticity and public life.
- C
The sentences don't rediscover or honor forgotten ancestors. They describe a ruler's policies and expectations, not a commemorative project.
- D
The focus is on women as wives and mothers, not on masculinity's role in shaping thought and action.
- E
This is A's criticism of the limits of gender analysis. B's sentences perform that analysis; they don't stop to argue that the approach hides as much as it reveals. An example of an approach is different from a criticism of it.
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