Answer Choices
less radical about gender roles than it might initially seem.
persuasive in the abstract but difficult to implement in practice.
ill-advised but consistent with a view held by some other advocates of gender equality.
compatible with economic progress in the United States but not in Europe.
Explanation for Question 39 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
Question 39 asks Tocqueville and passage. 2 One would most likely characterize the position taken by mill in line 65 through 3 69 and passage two as what? 4 So the first thing we're going to do is look at mills position express 5 in those lines. And then we'll look at something that Tocqueville says in passage. 6 One kind of in relation to that. So starting with line 65 7 through 69, they say, 8 let every occupation occupation here probably just means job. 9 Be open to all without favor or discouragement to any unemployment's will fall into 10 the hands of those men or women who are found by experience to be 11 most capable of where the lead exercising them. 12 So what position mill is taking here is that ability 13 of a person and nothing else should determine whether or not they're fit to 14 fulfill some role or some job. 15 But if we look at what Tocqueville says in passage one and the highlighted 16 lines starting in 18, it says they would give to both the same functions, 17 impose on both the same duties and grant to both the same rights they 18 would mix them in all things, their occupations, 19 their pleasures, their business, it may readily be conceived that by thus attempting to 20 make one sex equal to the other, both are degraded. 21 So here, what Tocqueville is saying is that if you allow people, 22 you allow society to do what mil is proposing in those lines, 23 then both sexes will be degraded. 24 So maybe like, Hey, that's not such a hot idea. 25 So let's look ...