Answer Choices
call into question the qualifications of the authors of Passage 1 regarding gender issues.
dispute the assertion made about women in the first sentence of Passage 1.
develop her argument by highlighting what she sees as flawed reasoning in Passage 1.
validate the concluding declarations made by the authors of Passage 1 about gender roles.
Explanation for Question 38 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3
Question 38 says inline 61 through 65, 2 the author of passage, two refers to a statement made in passage one in 3 order to do what? So let's look at the passage for some context here. 4 So the sentence that they're referring to starts in line 59, 5 it says, consider sir, this passionately, 6 these observations for a glimpse of this truth seem to open before you, 7 when you observed that to see one half of the human race excluded by 8 the other from all participation of government was a political phenomenon that according to 9 abstract principles, it was impossible to explain. 10 So you can see that they're quoting here the 11 first sentence of the first passage in those quotation marks 12 here and the, 13 these observations, the glimpse of truth that they're referring to comes in the passage 14 before here, where it says, 15 but the education and situation of woman at present shuts her out from such 16 investigation. 17 So basically what this is saying is addressing the author directly a 18 passage, one saying, consider the fact that you observed this. 19 And then she goes on to say, if so on what does your constitution 20 rests? So basically she's questioning on what grounds do you make this assertion? 21 So let's look at the answer choices here and see 22 which one might support that the best. 23 So if we look at answer choice C or answer choice, 24 a, it says to call into question the qualifications of the authors of passage, 25 one regarding gender issues. So this one's ...