Practically speaking, (A) should be wrong because it doesn’t match the answer you anticipated. If you had to take (A) seriously on its own merits, the key lesson you should take is to practice easy MSS questions with a focus on proactive anticipation.

For (A) to be right, we’d need Polanski’s essential position to be “the benefits of playing competitive sports don’t last into adulthood.” If anything, Polanski’s claim that forced participation would lead to “an antipathy toward athletics” suggests Polanski does think some characteristics carry over into later life.

Practically speaking, (B) should be wrong because it doesn’t match the answer you anticipated. If you had to take (B) seriously on its own merits, the key lesson you should take is to practice easy MSS questions with a focus on proactive anticipation.

For (B) to be right, we’d need Polanski’s essential position to be “we can make kids motivated to excel at athletics without letting them play sports!” A stimulus like that would bring up something like “playing sports-based video games is plenty motivating!”

Practically speaking, (C) should be wrong because it doesn’t match the answer you anticipated. If you had to take (C) seriously on its own merits, the key lesson you should take is to practice easy MSS questions with a focus on proactive anticipation.

The clearest reason to dismiss (C) on its own merits, though, is to notice that none of Polanski’s claims compare athletics to something else.

This captures Polanski’s mischaracterization of Brewer’s viewpoint. Polanski gets all up in arms about how forcing kids to participate in sports would be bad, but Brewer only argues children should be given the opportunity to play.

Practically speaking, (E) should be wrong because it doesn’t match the answer you anticipated. If you had to take (E) seriously on its own merits, the key lesson you should take is to practice easy MSS questions with a focus on proactive anticipation.

For (E) to be right, we’d need Polanski’s essential position to be “we can motivate kids without engaging their emotions at all!” A stimulus like that would bring up something like “I was raised in a hyper-rationalist community utterly devoid of emotion and I turned out fine!”