Explanation for Question 33 From the Reading Section on the 2018 May Sat
Okay. Question number 33 is asking us for evidence for the 2 answer to the previous question. The previous question number 32. 3 Remember our correct answer for 32 was choice C um, 4 Douglas implies that the legislators consideration of the bill he has proposed has been 5 clouded by discussion of issues that are fundamentally besides the point. 6 So we're looking for evidence of that. Let's look at our answer choices for 7 33 choice a says lines 25 through 29. 8 It is not the question involved is not. 9 The question involves the simple one, whether the people of the territory shall be 10 allowed to do as they please prom the question of slavery. 11 So this question is actually quite close to the overall meaning that he's trying 12 to develop his overall argument. However, 13 it doesn't really tie into that key part of the previous 14 question about how legislators are currently responding. 15 So it does do a good job of expressing his main argument, 16 but it doesn't really show how legislators are responding. 17 He wants them to think about it this way, but how are they currently 18 thinking about it? So for that reason choice as sort of incomplete evidence for 19 the answer to the previous question choice B is lines 29 through 20 32 that is here, 21 that is all the bill provides and it does. So in clear, 22 explicit and unequivocal terms, 23 I did not wish to deal in any equivocal language. 24 So here at Douglas is, is really asserting himself, 25 but, um, he's not necessar...