PrepTest 148, Section 2, Question 8
This passage was adapted from an article written(441 more words not shown)
According to the passage, the(9 more words not shown)
- Athe income gap(14 more words not shown)
- Bthe cost of(11 more words not shown)
- Cindustrial jobs in(9 more words not shown)
- Dprevious migration had(9 more words not shown)
- Eagricultural jobs in(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The first sentence of paragraph two answers this directly: only in 1915 did the North–South income gap become large enough to start migration on this scale. We need that stated reason.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Before then, the income difference was not large enough to induce the Great Migration. This does not mean nobody had moved North earlier; the opening explicitly mentions earlier migration.
- B
The authors do not say Northern living costs were prohibitively high. Their stated explanation concerns the income gap.
- C
We are not given a training requirement that Southern workers could not meet.
- D
Momentum explains why migration continued after it began. It is not the authors’ stated explanation for why the large-scale movement started in 1915 rather than earlier.
- E
A small income gap does not tell us that Southern jobs paid very well. Pay could have been low in both regions, or the difference simply could have been insufficient to justify moving.
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