3 Historical Causes ·WWI increased labor demand in North while cuting off European immigration; infestation ruined crops in South reducing labor demand there
Premise ·All three costs were reduced for later migrants
Previous migrants could pass information to reduce uncertainty and help new migrants settle in. New migrants could travel with previous migrants to reduce the cost of moving.
Previous migrants also provided new migrants with temporary housing, food, and credit. Also provided a cultural cushion for later migrants.
Passage Style
Phenomenon-hypothesis
Single position
11.
The primary purpose of the ████ ████████ ██ ███ ██████ █████████ ██ ██
Question Type
Purpose in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
This Purpose in Context question asks for the primary purpose of the last sentence of P2. This sentence introduces the phenomenon (the continuation of the Great Migration) that P3 and P4 attempt to explain.
This sentence doesn’t indicate that previous research was misguided. Instead, the sentence suggests that the beginning and the continuation of the Great Migration need different explanations.
The point of the last sentence of P2 is to show that the explanation of the beginning of the Great Migration does not explain why the Great Migration continued, so the purpose of this sentence is not to extend an explanation. Instead, P2 shows that a new explanation will be necessary to explain why the Great Migration continued.
c
challenge the traditional ████ ████ ████████ █████ ████ ██████ ████ ████████ █████ █████ ██ ████
The authors don’t challenge this view. This sentence says that the income differences narrowedafter the Great Migration began, but the authors don’t challenge the claim that Northern wages were higher than Southern wages before the Great Migration.
This is the primary purpose of the final sentence of P2. This sentence presents a fact (that the Great Migration continued for decades, even as the North-South income differences narrowed) that the authors seek to explain (with their hypothesis that migration develops momentum).
e
suggest that the █████ █████████ ██████ ██ █████████
Actually, the authors spend P3 and P4 explaining the continuation of the Great Migration, so their purpose in using this sentence is not to suggest that the Great Migration can’t be explained.
Difficulty
88% of people who answer get this correct
This is a slightly challenging question.
It is slightly harder than the average question in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%129
140
75%151
Analysis
Purpose in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
Humanities
Phenomenon-hypothesis
Single position
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
1%
153
b
11%
157
c
0%
147
d
88%
163
e
0%
140
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