PrepTest 157, Section 1, Question 5
The late 1950s and early 1960s were a(442 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(14 more words not shown)
- ABy exposing the(16 more words not shown)
- BThe Freedom Rides(15 more words not shown)
- CThe Freedom Rides(19 more words not shown)
- DBecause the Freedom(15 more words not shown)
- EThe Freedom Rides(14 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The author treats the Freedom Rides as a turning point. They exposed the realities of segregation, and violent attacks on the riders prompted the government to protect them. We should look for that positive assessment and the connection to government action.
What we’re looking for
One possible objection needs clearing up: didn't the government already act when it outlawed school segregation? Yes. The rides can still have induced further action. Induced does not mean induced for the first time.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The final sentence says the rides underscored segregation's harsh realities to the government. The preceding sentence describes government force protecting the riders and calls it explicit support for desegregation outside public schools. Together, those statements support both parts of A. The earlier school ruling doesn't conflict with this later response; nothing in the answer says the government had never addressed segregation before.
- B
No final contribution is identified. The account ends with the rides' importance, but the end of this account isn't the end of everything student activists did.
- C
The rides adapted the existing sit-in technique. They offered an example for later action without being entirely new in the way C claims.
- D
The reprisals were real, but the author doesn't say they reversed progress. Instead, they prompted government protection and helped take the movement to a new level.
- E
The shift from small-scale student protests to a sustained wider effort is attributed to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. E transfers that role to the rides. It also calls the earlier protests uncoordinated, which isn't established.
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