PrepTest 148, Section 2, Question 12
This passage was adapted from an article written(441 more words not shown)
The passage provides the most(8 more words not shown)
- AThe highest-paying agricultural(19 more words not shown)
- BThe overall cost(32 more words not shown)
- CThe North–South income(25 more words not shown)
- DThe average wages(24 more words not shown)
- EMost migrants in(26 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We have evidence about changing labor demand and about the costs facing later migrants. We do not have a complete table of wages or a count of every migrant’s travels. Check the specific claim each choice asks us to accept.
Working the answers
- A
An overall regional income gap does not establish how the highest-paying agricultural jobs compared with the lowest-paying manufacturing jobs. Those extremes could differ from the broader pattern.
- B
This reverses the cost pattern the authors describe. Earlier migrants helped reduce the obstacles facing later migrants; the earliest arrivals did not already have that established network working for them.
- CCorrect
Paragraph one gives both changes: World War I increased Northern labor demand, while the ruined cotton crops reduced Southern labor demand. The beginning of paragraph two connects those conditions with the income gap becoming large enough in 1915 to trigger the Great Migration.
- D
The authors do not say average Southern wages held steady for all workers through the 1910s and 1920s. A changing regional gap does not tell us that one side remained constant.
- E
We know migrants made return visits and passed information to people still in the South. We do not know that most migrants made such a trip. The visits help support the network explanation without establishing a majority count.
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