Multicultural Education

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong10% picked this

   The social and historical circumstances that give rise to a culture’s values cannot be understood by members of

   Too Strong: cannot be understood Word Salad The text was saying that "because of different social historical circumstances, Culture X has different values from ours, and it will be impossible to understand Culture X if we approach it using our values." The text was never talking about trying to understand the social and historical circumstances. This form of trap answer is like a tossed salad of words and phrases that appeared in the text, but it creates a new, unsupported meaning. These critics also weren't saying it's impossible to understand a culture with different values, they were saying it's impossible to understand a culture with different values if you use your culture's majority perspective. If you choose to study Culture X using Culture X's perspective, you might be able to understand.

   10%
2. B

   Correct58% picked this

   The historical and social circumstances of a culture can play an important role in the development

   Why this is right

   The last two sentences of the 2nd paragraph supports this, if we do a little allowable mind-reading and imagine the logical connection the author was probably making between two consecutive ideas: Not all cultures share liberal values. (after all) Their value systems have arisen in often radically different social and historical circumstances. Opinion questions vary a lot in terms of whether the correct answer is a fairly derivable implication of something that was said in the passage vs. whether the correct answer is sort of a weak, gist-y idea or a step away from what the passage has explicitly said, but a very conservative amount of "mind-reading" on our part. The test writers have acknowledged that we're allowed to do more "mind-reading" in RC than in LR. We'll always pick something provable over something not-provable, but if you don't find any answer that's provable, you should relax your standards and use your common sense more.

   Skill tested: Non-Author Opinion · how this choice captures the passage's function is the move to repeat next time.

   58%
3. C

   Wrong Stipulation23% picked this

   It is impossible for one culture to successfully study another culture unless it does so from more

   Normally, the extreme word 'impossible' would be a huge red flag, but we know that these critics did use language that strong. They say it's impossible to successfully understand Culture X if we use our culture's standards. We should use X's standards instead. This answer is saying we should use more than one standard, which isn't supported by any text.

   23%
4. D

   Wrong Stipulation5% picked this

   Genuine understanding of another culture is impossible unless that culture shares the

   Normally, the extreme word 'impossible' would be a huge red flag, but we know that these critics did use language that strong. They say it's impossible to successfully understand Culture X if we use our culture's standards. We should use X's standards instead. This answer is saying that we can only understand cultures that share our values. But the critics aren't saying that. They're just saying you can only understand a culture using that culture's values. If it's possible for us to use another culture's values as we study it, rather than use our own values, then it's still possible to study cultures who don't share our same values.

   5%
5. E

   Out of Scope: Western science5% picked this

   The values of liberalism cannot be adequately understood if we approach them solely through the

   Nothing in this 2nd paragraph is talking about Western science at all. Nor does this paragraph say anything about adequately understanding liberalism. Liberalism isn't a culture; it's a value. And this paragraph is only about what it takes to adequately understand a culture.

   5%