PrepTest 159, Section 2, Question 27
For most of the past century, scholars in(451 more words not shown)
The author of the passage(17 more words not shown)
- AIt correctly identifies(15 more words not shown)
- BIt was the(14 more words not shown)
- CIt correctly identifies(15 more words not shown)
- DIt holds that(10 more words not shown)
- EIt is derived(12 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The author doesn't reject everything in boundary theory. It gets something important right: ownership is exclusive. The mistake is interpreting that exclusivity solely as a duty for other people to keep away.
What we’re looking for
The author retains exclusivity in the agenda-setting account but changes its meaning to the owner's special authority. We need a choice that captures both the agreement and the correction.
Working the answers
- A
The duties emphasized by boundary theory belong to nonowners: they are supposed to exclude themselves. The author does not praise the theory for identifying a key responsibility of owners. Getting the negative half of this answer right doesn't repair its positive half.
- B
We aren't given the early bundle-of-rights scholars' principal target of criticism. The first paragraph describes a more recent criticism running in the other direction, from boundary theorists to the bundle-of-rights view.
- CCorrect
Exclusivity is the necessary concept the author preserves, but boundary theory interprets it incorrectly. The “grain of truth” is that ownership is exclusive; the correction is that the owner occupies a distinctive agenda-setting position rather than simply being left alone after everyone else is excluded.
- D
A right to sell appears in the bundle-of-rights examples. The boundary theory isn't said to require it. Don't replace the theory's stated definition with what we ordinarily associate with ownership.
- E
No derivation from a broader theory of rights is described. We learn what boundary theory claims and why the author finds it inadequate, not the larger theory from which it originated.
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