PT125.S3.P1.Q2

PrepTest 125 - Section 3 - Passage 1 - Question 2

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P1

Most of what has been written about Thurgood Marshall, a former United States Supreme Court justice who served from 1967 to 1991, has just focused on his judicial record and on the ideological content of his earlier achievements as a lawyer pursuing civil rights issues in the courts. ███

Intro topic · Thurgood Marshall, lawyer and Supreme Court judge
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Main point · Marshall's work with the NAACP had significant impact on public interest law
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Elaborate on main point · Marshall's campaign-style approach was an important shift for public interest law
Represented a shift away from case-by-case litigation
P2

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Explain Marshall's approach · The "test case" strategy
Chose cases that allowed him to test different litigation approaches and involved sympathetic plaintiffs
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Explain Marshall's approach · Use of sociological and pyschological statistical evidence
Showed that racial segregation caused harm which violated the Constitution
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Critics' perspective · on Marshall's use of statistical evidence
Took cases outside the realm of purely legal discourse
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Implications of Marshall's approach · Public interest firms still use his methods
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Examples · of campaigns using Marshall's methods
Consumer advocacy, lawmaking though litigation
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Revisit main point · Marshall's public interest approach has been widely adopted
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The author doesn’t “dispute” a claim in the first sentence. The author doesn’t suggest that there’s any claim that’s incorrect concerning Marshall.

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b

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The first sentence does not indicate that Marshall’s ideologies (beliefs) are controversial.

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The author doesn’t outline the historical importance of Marshall’s ideologies and work as a Supreme Court justice. Rather, the author simply mentions that these are what writers typically focus on when writing about Marshall.

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d

It identifies Marshall's ████████████ ████████████ ███ ████████ ████ ██████████ ███ █████████ ███████ █████ █████████████

This accurately captures the purpose. The first sentence tells us what writers typically focus on when writing about Marshall as part of a setup for the rest of the passage, which focuses on an aspect of Marshall’s achievements that’s given less attention (his litigation strategies).

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e

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The author doesn’t “correct” any alleged inaccuracy concerning Marshall. The author never says that there’s a claim that’s factually wrong about Marshall.

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