Hi:
I didn't choose E because when I saw "supporting an assertion", I thought the "assertion" would mean the criticism mentioned in the main point that "the failures (is to) be blamed by the ideals of founders." So since the main point is worded in a way to actually disapprove this criticism, I thought E was going to the opposite way,
So how should I interpret the terms in the answers and know which word actually refers to which statement in the passage (like in this case, I thought the 'assertion' refers to the idea refuted rather than author's idea). Or did I just simply think too strategically trivially?
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While I do like the term, I wouldn’t describe this as strategically trivial. I think it’s critical to recognize when an answer choice chooses to use obnoxiously general language like E does here. The fact is that an assertion could totally refer to both the critique mentioned at the beginning or Wagners rebuttal of that critique. Since we have such a general answer choice I would want you to look for other options to which it could be referring: youre thinking is totally right as to what the author thinks. You’re going most of the hard work, and what you would need to shift is double checking for possible alternative ways to interpret a general statement the answer choice makes.
