PrepTest 37, Section 4, Question 7
By Brandon Beaver | Published October 29, 2024
Type: Agree / Disagree
Difficulty:
Explanations
We're asked which answer choice the author's likely to agree with.
It'll be tough to predict the answer choice verbatim, but we know the author's point of view. The correct answer will be rooted in that, so let's recap:
Our author:
Our correct answer's very likely to be rooted in one of those ideas. Let's dive in.
A
No, our author doesn't believe that hung juries mostly come from juror errors. Much the opposite, the author more likely believes that hung juries are the result of thoughtful jurors.
B
No, this is a case of didn't-read-don't-pick. We don't know what volume of flaws the author thinks exist in the jury trial system.
C
Nope. This is a trap answer. That word "any" carries a lot of weight here. The author doesn't excuse any and all flaws in the jury system. If that "any" had instead said "some", this would be a different conversation.
D
Perfect. Hung juries are necessary to a properly functioning jury system. This matches one of our predictions very closely.
E
No, we don't have evidence in the passage for what percentage of hung juries come from one juror's opinion getting overlooked.
Passage
The jury trial is one of the handful of democratic instituti
Question 7
It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be