Answer Choices
With approval, because adapting to new events may enhance existing partnerships.
With resignation, because changing circumstances are an inevitable aspect of life.
With skepticism, because Paine does not substantiate his claim with examples of governments changed for the better.
With disapproval, because changing conditions are insufficient justification for changing the form of government.
Explanation for Question 38 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4
2 38 says which twice best describes how Burke the author of password one would 2 most likely have reacted to pain's remark and the final paragraph of passage two. 3 So let's look back and see what pain has to say. 4 He says the circumstances of the world are continually changing and the opinions of 5 men change also, and as government is for the living and not for the 6 dead, it is the living only that has any right in it that which 7 may be thought right, and found convenient in one age, 8 maybe thought wrong and found inconvenient in another and such cases who is to 9 decide the living or the dead. So basically what this paragraph is saying is 10 that the living only should have a say in whether the government changes or 11 not to fit the needs of its citizens. 12 So let's look and see what Burke has to say about changing the government 13 based on the current time period. 14 And we can find this in the second paragraph. 15 He says, firstly, that subordinate contracts 16 may be dissolved at pleasure, but this social contract shouldn't be considered 17 as that subordinate contract and shouldn't be easily dissolvable. 18 And then Berg also goes on to say at the end of that paragraph, 19 that the municipal corporations of that universal kingdom are not 20 morally at Liberty at their pleasure. 21 So these institutions that have been built are not at Liberty to be changed 22 at the pleasure of whoever's changing them and on their speculations of a contingent 23 improvement, who...