PT114.S3.P4.Q22

PrepTest 114 - Section 3 - Passage 4 - Question 22

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One of the greatest challenges facing medical students today, apart from absorbing volumes of technical information and learning habits of scientific thought, is that of remaining empathetic to the needs of patients in the face of all this rigorous training. █████████ ████████ ██ ███████ ██████████ ██████████ ██ ███████ ██████████ █████ █████████████ ████ ████ ███ ████████ ███ ███████ ███████ ██ ██████████ ███ ████ ████████ ██████████ ████████ ██ ████████████ ███ █████████ ████ ██████ ███████ █████████ ███

Problem · How to train medical students to be empathetic?
They can't just be immersed in textbooks and science. They need to be connected to patients to be empathetic and ethical.
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(Proposed) Solution · Learn ethics using narrative literature
Unclear what this means at the moment but presumably the rest of the passage will flesh this out.
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Status Quo · Training in abstract philosophical ethics
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Critique · Fails to provide understanding of everyday human experience
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Solution · Use narrative literature to understand wide variety of human relationships
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Solution Mechanics · Flexible ethical thinking; adopt other people's perspectives
Reading narrative literature helps to develop ability to empathize; discourages absolute strict moral rules.
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Caveat · Flexible does not mean relativistic
There are still moral principles. Using narrative literature threads the needle between two moral extremes: dogmatically absolutist and extremely relativistic.
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Conclusion · Narrative literature better than traditional ethics training
Provides a deeper understanding of human nature and a more flexible application of moral principles.
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22.

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Question Type
Meaning in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure

For this Meaning in Context question, we are asked for the author’s meaning in using the phrase “moral imagination.” By looking at the rest of the sentence, we see that readers need to be able to recognize the importance of a story, even when it doesn’t impact them personally. We are looking for an answer that shows that the author used the phrase “moral imagination” to refer to the ability to consider the complexity of ethical conflicts even if you aren’t directly involved.

a

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(A) doesn’t fully capture the author’s meaning in using the phrase “moral imagination.” It’s not enough to actively follow the development of the characters’ problems; readers need to fully engage with the story and grapple with the story’s moral issues.

b

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The author doesn’t say that readers need to take sides in ethical controversies. Instead, readers need to fully engage with the story and grapple with the story’s moral issues.

c

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The phrase “moral imagination” refers to how readers engage with a story and grapple with the story’s moral issues; the phrase “moral imagination” specifically doesn’t refer to problem solving; it’s more about how readers understand the problems.

d

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This is the author’s purpose in using the phrase “moral imagination”. By looking at the rest of the sentence, we see that readers need to be able to recognize the importance of a story and the moral conflicts in the story, even when it doesn’t impact them personally. (D) shows that the author used the phrase “moral imagination” to refer to the ability to consider the complexity of ethical conflicts even if you aren’t directly involved.

e

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The author never advocates for acting upon acting on different ethical principles for the sake of variety, so this wouldn’t be what the author means by saying that readers must use their moral imagination.

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