PrepTest 159, Section 4, Question 3
In France in the early 1790s, the French(430 more words not shown)
On the question of extending(16 more words not shown)
- AExtending equal rights(17 more words not shown)
- BExtending equal rights(19 more words not shown)
- CExtending equal rights(25 more words not shown)
- DExtending equal rights(27 more words not shown)
- EExtending equal rights(18 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Gouges's position combines action with a diagnosis of the problem. Women must politically organize because men's political power sustains women's disadvantages across their dealings with men, including marriage. We want that argument, without adding a coalition or tactic she never specifies.
Working the answers
- A
The struggle is supported, but the description of men as unwilling to engage in reasonable discussion adds a claim about discussion that isn't established. Calling for political action doesn't automatically rule out reasonable conversation.
- B
Gouges calls for women to mobilize. We aren't told that all other disempowered groups must join them in a coalition. That could be someone's proposal, but it isn't the one described here.
- CCorrect
This includes the political struggle and its target: men's power over women in public and private life. Political exclusion is the central problem, and the discussion of marriage shows how that disadvantage extends into private relationships.
- D
No strategy of choosing key male allies is described, much less identified as essential. Don't fill in a political plan that sounds plausible but isn't stated.
- E
This resembles the expectation that equality will follow from general progress without direct action. It misses Gouges's insistence that women must act to prevent men from retaining the Revolution's benefits for themselves.
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