Explanation for Question 13 From the Reading Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question 13 says which choice best supports the idea that women, 2 if they choose are entitled to act as men do. 3 So let's look at the lines of evidence given to us as answer choices 4 here and see which one best kind of conveys this idea 5 of the entitlement to equality. So if we look at answer choice and says, 6 why expand the female heart merely to render it more conscious than it is 7 by the tyranny of custom rendered vulnerable? 8 So this doesn't really have the comparison between men and 9 women or any kind of discussion about equality in that 10 sense. So answer choice a would be incorrect. 11 If you look at answer choice B it's on two pages here, 12 it says, but let him not hope for a luxurious mental harvest where the 13 son of cultivation is obscured by impenetrable justice. 14 So this is kind of talking about how men shouldn't expect for 15 society in general, to just be relatively informed if they're preventing 16 one half of society from gaining that information. 17 But in this case, you don't have that element of the entitlement to equality 18 on the part of women. It's just kind of analyzing the effects of the 19 inequality. So B would be incorrect. 20 And then if we look at C, it says, 21 but she's not permitted to attain it. It being intellect or education. 22 She is conscious of possessing equally strong mental powers, 23 but she is obliged to yield as the weaker creature. 24 So again, this is kind of just outlining the inequality that is present 25 in soci...