The question wording was kind of confusing.

I understand now why D is incorrect, but I'm still totally unconvinced about the reasoning for why A is even remotely close to correct.

I didn't choose A because the passage says that "Decentralization enables divisions of a large institution to function autonomously." In other words, decentralization is a necessary but not sufficient condition for autonomous functioning.

So a large institution can be decentralized (and thereby have more realistic planning) without having more autonomous functioning. If that's true, though, then you can have large institutions that are decentralized (and thereby have maximally realistic planning) without having divisions that are autonomous.

Why is this wrong? The only thing I can think of is that autonomous functioning allows realistic planning, not decentralization -- but the "This" in the passage leaves it unclear whether it's referring to the autonomous functioning or the decentralization.

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I thought "phenomenon" was referring to "guilt and self-loathing"...

I chose C because the wording of "there is no change in the situational context in which the conversation takes place" so closely matches the bottom of the passage, "but their taped conversations occasionally contained some Spanish, with no change in situational factors."

But I now realize that the first part, "Bilingual people often X" is nowhere in the passage... I think that if "Bilingual people often" had been replaced by "The Puerto Rican American family," the answer would have been correct.

For question 4, I didn't choose B because it says "failure to comprehend the possible consequences of drilling in complex geologic systems." From what I understand, they understand the consequences, they just don't understand the complex geologic systems. Of course they understand that oil in groundwater is bad! So I would've chosen "failure to comprehend complex geologic systems" or even "failure to comprehend drilling in complex geologic systems," but I don't understand why "failure to comprehend the possible consequences of drilling in complex geologic systems" is correct.

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Isn't (e) more of a conclusion than a necessary assumption?

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But why would you donate money (a larger commitment) if you're unwilling to even join the party (a smaller commitment)? It seems like the 16 percent should be entirely within the 26 percent

Can you send a LOCI even if you haven't been waitlisted?

I picked C because it specifies "if violence in certain movies causes violence in viewers" -- since they obviously both agree that violence is bad, that means IF they assume that violence will be caused, then yes they would agree that the movies should be restricted. How is this wrong?

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