Frankie: If jelly makers were given

Answer choices

1. A

   Bad Description1% picked this

   Giving a reason why a proposed course of action would be beneficial to all those

   Anna does the opposite of arguing the proposal is beneficial — she predicts it would fail to help cloudberry gatherers. So she certainly isn't giving a reason the proposal benefits everyone affected.

   1%
2. B

   Bad Description3% picked this

   Reinterpreting evidence presented in support of a proposal as a reason to

   Anna does not reinterpret evidence Frankie offered. Frankie didn't present any evidence — just a prediction. Anna brings in entirely new material (the cacao history) rather than rereading anything Frankie said.

   3%
3. C

   Correct94% picked this

   Projecting the result of following a proposal in a given situation by comparing that situation

   Why this is right

   This describes exactly what Anna does. Frankie proposes a course of action (incentivizing cloudberry use). Anna projects its outcome — that gatherers' income won't rise — by comparing the cloudberry situation to a past situation, the trajectory of cacao from wild gathering to large-scale farming. The past case is her model for predicting what the proposal will produce.

   Skill tested: Method · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   94%
4. D

   Bad Description0% picked this

   Proposing a general theory as a way of explaining a specific

   Anna doesn't propose a general theory. She reasons from one specific case (cacao) to one specific case (cloudberries). There's no overarching principle she states and applies; the comparison is concrete-to-concrete.

   0%
5. E

   Bad Description2% picked this

   Contending that the uses for one product are similar to the uses

   Anna doesn't argue that the uses of one product are similar to the uses of another. The cacao parallel is about supply trajectories — wild-gathered to farmed — not about how the products are used. The two products are compared as commodities going through the same supply transition, not as items with similar applications.

   2%