PT83.S2.Q26 - The passage can most accurately be described...

So__WhatSo__What Alum Member
edited February 2018 in Reading Comprehension 17 karma

I don't entirely understand why the answer is B and not E.

I think E probably is not the answer, in hindsight, because it is not "one writer's version of the theory" but at the same time the passage does say things like "She (Gilman) argued."

I have trouble with the "intellectual controversy" part of answer choice B, it didn't seem like a controversy to me, just an interpretation.

Can anyone explain?

Thx

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  • J.Y. PingJ.Y. Ping Administrator Instructor
    edited February 2018 14220 karma

    Ah good question! The answer is to be found in lines 9 - 14 "some of these Social Darwinist theorists held that..." and lines 14 - 20 "Another, more activist group of Social Darwinists held that..."

    That's the controversy.

    Next paragraph: "Gilman identified herself with this latter ideological camp..."

    This largely explains why (B) is right.

    As for why (E) doesn't work, it's because Gilman isn't presenting her version of the theory of evolution, which is a theory whose domain is biology. She's taking the theory of evolution and applying it to a different domain, society. See lines 6 - 7 "Darwin's theory of evolution did not directly apply to..."

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