PrepTest 37, Section 4, Question 6
By Brandon Beaver | Published October 29, 2024
Type: Stated
Difficulty:
Explanations
We're asked to identify which answer choice reflects something the author said would follow from allowing dissenting opinions to be dismissed.
We have two solid predictions here straight from the last paragraph:
It's going to be one of those two things. Let's take a look.
A
Nope. There's no evidence for this in the passage and it doesn't match either of our predictions.
B
No. This is a trap. It scratches at our first prediction about jurors hearing out each other's opinions, but we don't necessarily discuss how that plays into respecting each other. Every word counts. Moving on.
C
Bingo. This is the answer. It's explicitly stated in the last sentence of the passage and matches our prediction.
D
No. This might be an outcome, but we don't necessarily have evidence that this would happen, and it certainly isn't stated explicitly.l
E
No way. This completely mischaracterizes our author's argument.
Passage
The jury trial is one of the handful of democratic instituti
Question 6
The author explicitly claims that which one of the following