PT127.S4.P4.Q23

PrepTest 127 - Section 4 - Passage 4 - Question 23

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P1

During most of the nineteenth century, many French women continued to be educated according to models long established by custom and religious tradition. ███

Intro topic · Education of French women during 1800s
Based on custom and religion for most of 1800s.
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Other person's perspective · Failure to reform education after French Revolution (1789) was "missed opportunity"
Nondiscriminatory system not established until 1880s.
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Spotlight · There were proposals for reform after French Revolution
Two in particular were egalitarian.
P2

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First proposal · Called for education for everyone
Proposed offering education to both men and women, opening public schools throughout country, hiring both men and women teachers.
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Limit on first proposal · Women still treated differently
Girls leave school at 8 years old for domestic training.
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Second proposal · Called for equal education and coed schools
Coed schools supposed to protect against gender roles from religion.
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Limit on second proposal · Women still treated differently
Women's roles still defined by family and motherhood.
P3

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Lesson · Obstacles to equal education
The failure and limits of the two proposals shows the cultural and political obstacles after the French Revolution.
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Impact of the two proposals · Influenced educational reform in 1880s
Egalitarian reforms passed in 1880s used the earlier proposals to demonstrate that the new laws were rooted in tradition.
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23.

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a

Education in France ██████ ███ ██████████ ██████ ██ ██████████ ███ █████████ ████ █████████ ██ ██████ ███ ███████████ ██████ ███ ██████████ ███████████████ ██████ ████ ████████ ███ ██████████ ███ █████████

The author doesn’t end by describing inconsistencies between the two proposals. She doesn't show how some parts of the first proposal contradicted parts of the second proposal. Rather, she ends by describing a successful later proposal that recalled the first two proposals.

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b

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The author doesn’t end by describing the differences between two proposals for education reform. Rather, she ends by describing a successful later proposal that recalled the first two proposals.

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c

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The author doesn’t end by discussing why change required less of a break with custom and religious tradition. The later proposal that was successful was not necessarily less of a break with the way children had been educated up until that point. This proposal still involved public schools for women, no fees for education, and compulsory attendance for all students, which were breaks with tradition that were part of the first two proposals. The author does not characterize these changes as less of a break with traditional education.

Although the author does note that the later proposal was "rooted in a long philosophical, political, and pedagogical tradition," this doesn't imply that the later proposal was rooted in the way traditional education was handled. There's a difference between breaking from traditional education (which is what (D) is about), and having intellectual and egalitarian roots in the first two failed proposals (which is what "philosophical, political, and pedagogical tradition" refers to).

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d

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The author doesn’t end by modifying how the aims of the first two proposals are characterized. She doesn't, for example, suggest that the first two proposals really weren't trying to achieve egalitarian aims. Rather, the author ends by describing a later proposal that recalled the first two.

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e

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This is the best answer. P1 describes the nature of education for women in France right after the French Revolution. P2 describes two proposals for educational reform. P3 describes the relationship between those proposals and later, successful reform.

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