Most of what has been written about Thurgood Marshall, a former United States Supreme Court justice who served from 1967 to 1991, has just focused on his judicial record and on the ideological content of his earlier achievements as a lawyer pursuing civil rights issues in the courts. ███
Intro topic ·Thurgood Marshall, lawyer and Supreme Court judge
Revisit main point ·Marshall's public interest approach has been widely adopted
Passage Style
Single position
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7.
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Question Type
Stated
The author tells us that some legal scholars criticized Marshall’s use of statistics, because they viewed it as a “pragmatic attempt to give judges nonlegal material with which to fill gaps in their justifications for decisions where the purely legal principles appear inconclusive.”
a
the ideology Marshall ████ ██ ███████ ███ █████
This isn’t what the passage says legal scholars criticized. The author tells us that some legal scholars criticized Marshall’s use of statistics.
b
recent public interest █████████
This isn’t what the passage says legal scholars criticized. The author tells us that some legal scholars criticized Marshall’s use of statistics.
c
the use of ██████████ ██████████ ██ ███████████ ████████████ ███████
This isn’t what the passage says legal scholars criticized. The author tells us that some legal scholars criticized Marshall’s use of statistics.
d
the use of █████████████ ██████████ ██ █████ █████
Supported by P3. The author tells us that some legal scholars criticized Marshall’s use of statistics.
e
the set of ████████ ███ █████████ ██████ ████████ █████████
This isn’t what the passage says legal scholars criticized. The author tells us that some legal scholars criticized Marshall’s use of statistics.
Difficulty
96% of people who answer get this correct
This is a slightly challenging question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%126
135
75%143
Analysis
Stated
Law
Single position
Spotlight
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
1%
155
b
0%
154
c
1%
153
d
96%
163
e
1%
154
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