PT117.S4.Q8

PrepTest 117 - Section 4 - Question 8

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Insurgent political parties that are profoundly dissatisfied with the dominant party's reign and justificatory ideology always produce factions whose views and aims differ as greatly from each other's as they do from the dominant party's. ████████ █████ ████████ ██████ █████ ███ █████████████ ███ ███ ████ ██ █████████ ███ ████████ ██████ █████ █████████████ ██████████ ████ ███████ ████ ████████ ██████████ ████████

Summary

Revolutionary political parties that oppose the dominant party’s reign and ideology always produce groups that are as different from each other as these groups are different from the dominant party. Even though these groups ignore each other’s differences, these differences are eventually revealed upon victory.

Strongly Supported Conclusions

Therefore, a winning revolutionary group must address the differences between the other revolutionary groups if that group wants to stay in power.

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8.

Which one of the following ██ ███ ████ ███████ ██████████ ██ ███ █████████

a

no victorious insurgent █████ ████ ███████ ██ ████ ██ █████ ███ ██ ████ ██ ███ █████ ██ █████████ ███

This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus the timeline for any political party to stay in power. To say that no revolutionary party that wins ever stays in power for as long as the displaced party is too strong.

2%
b

a victorious insurgent █████ ████ ███████ ███ █████████████ ███████ ███ ████████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ████ ██ █████

This answer is strongly supported. If these group’s differences aren’t addressed, then it is probable that the remaining groups will band together to dethrone the new dominant party.

76%
c

the heretofore insurgent █████ ████ ███ ██████ ██████████ █ ███ ████████ ██ ███████ ███ ███ █████████ ████ ██ ██ ██████████

This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus whether or not the winning revolutionary party will promote a new ideology. We only know that the ideologies in these parties differ from the party in power, not necessary that these ideologies are “new.”

12%
d

a victorious insurgent █████ ██████ █████ ██████████ ████ ███ █████ ██ ████████ ██████

This answer is unsupported. Whether the revolutionary party will face opposition from the party it dethrones is an assumption that we don’t know will “always” be true.

4%
e

it is impossible ███ ███ █████████ ████████ ██ █ ██████████ █████████ █████ ██ ██████ ███ ███████████ █████████ ██ ████ ███ ███ █████ ██ █████

This answer is unsupported. It is too strong to say that agreement among the different revolutionary groups is “impossible.”

6%

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