In ancient Greece, court witnesses

Answer choices

1. A

   Out of Scope - Term Shift7% picked this

   Litigants believed jurors were more likely to be impressed by litigants whose

   Personality is not the same as morality.

   7%
2. B

   Too Weak6% picked this

   Litigants believed jurors were more likely to subject the litigants' personal moral codes to close critical scrutiny than were people who

   Close scrutiny of one’s moral code does not necessarily mean that the moral code was going to reflect the average citizen. It could be that litigants would profess an idealized moral code rather than one that accurately reflected the average citizen.

   6%
3. C

   Correct83% picked this

   Litigants believed jurors were likely to be impressed by litigants whose professed moral code most

   Why this is right

   This connects the need to impress the jurors with the professed moral code being a good indication of the moral code commonly held by the citizens of Greece.

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

   83%
4. D

   Weakens1% picked this

   Litigants believed jurors to be more impressed by litigants who were of the same economic

   This suggests that oratory by litigants would be a good source of data on something other than the common conceptions of morality.

   1%
5. E

   Weakens3% picked this

   Litigants believed jurors were likely to render their decisions based on a good understanding

   This suggests that oratory by litigants would be a good source of data on something other than the common conceptions of morality.

   3%