The passage implies that the colonials discussed in the passage would have considered which one of the following to b...

Shiyi-Zhang January 23, 2019

I have the same question. Could someone explain this question?

Shiyi-Zhang January 30, 2019

Could someone explain this question to me?

Ravi January 31, 2019

@Miller and @Shiyi-Zhang,

Happy to help. To clarify, could you confirm that the question you're
reading states, "The author mentions which one of the following as
evidence for the eighteenth-century English attitude toward
Parliament?"

Also, could you confirm the answer choices you're seeing are

(A) The English had become uncomfortable with institutions that could
claim absolute authority.

(B) The English realized that their interests were better guarded by
Parliament than by the King.

(C) The English allowed Parliament to make constitutional changes by
legislative enactment.

(D) The English felt that the King did not possess the knowledge that
would enable him to rule responsibly.

(E) The English had decided that it was time to reform their
representative government.

On the actual test, this is what I'm seeing on the screen. However, on
the screen that's showing the correct answer, I'm seeing some
different answer choices with (E) being correct. However, I think this
is a glitch and have alerted our technical team about it.

Let's go over this question. The question stem is asking us to select
the answer that the author stated as evidence for the
eighteenth-century English attitude toward Parliament.

The key portions of the passage to look at are lines 30 to 32, where
the author states, "The most unmistakable sign of this tendency was
the legal assertion that the King was subject to the law" and lines 34
to 36, where the author states, "went the assertion that the
Parliament was unlimited in its power: it could change even the
Constitution by its ordinary acts of legislation." The whole third
paragraph is about showing the eighteenth-century English attitude
toward Parliament, and these two statements are offered as evidence.

(C) says the English allowed Parliament to make constitutional changes
by legislative enactment, and this is exactly what lines 34 to 36 tell
us. This is the correct answer.

(A) is incorrect because it's not mentioned as support.

(B) is incorrect because while it might be true that the English
realized that their interests were better guarded by Parliament than
by the King, the question is asking us to pick an answer that the
author MENTIONS in the passage, and (B) is not mentioned at all as
evidence. We can get rid of it.

(D) is not mentioned at all, so we can get rid of it.

(E) is also not mentioned, so we can eliminate it.

Does this make sense? Let us know if you have any more questions—we're
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