Monroe: Our organization’s project

Answer choices

1. A

   Agree0% picked this

   Approximately 2,000 homes in the community are still

   They seemed to agree about this claim. Monroe explicitly says it and Wilkerson does 5,000 - 2,000 math to arrive at her 3,000 number.

   0%
2. B

   Unsupported Disagree Position0% picked this

   Before the organization’s project began, over 5,000 homes in the community

   Wilkerson clearly agrees with this, since she explicitly says so. We have no reason to think that Monroe disagrees. He doesn't say anything about the specific number of homes that had no electricity when the project began.

   0%
3. C

   Unsupported Agree Position7% picked this

   The organization’s project must be considered a failure if any home in the community

   This is such a strongly worded claim that neither person would likely agree with this. Wilkerson already thinks the project was not a failure (and there are still 2,000 people without electricity), so Wilkerson definitely disagrees with this answer. But we couldn't say Monroe agrees with this. He thinks that "if we didn't reduce the number of homes without electricity as much as possible, then we failed". He doesn't necessarily think, "If we didn't reduce the number to zero, then we failed".

   7%
4. D

   Unsupported Disagree Position1% picked this

   The stated goal of the project was to reduce as much as possible the number of homes in

   We know that Monroe agrees with this because he says it explicitly, but we have no reason to think that Wilkerson disagrees with it. She never talks about what the stated goal was.

   1%
5. E

   Correct92% picked this

   Leaving approximately 2,000 homes in the community without electricity at the conclusion of the project counts as a

   Why this is right

   Both people accept that the current number without electricity is about 2,000. Monroe would agree with this answer, because he tells us that 2000 homes still lacking electricity indicates that this project was a failure. Wilkerson would disagree with this, because she thinks the fact that the project brought electricity to 3,000 homes counts as a success.

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

   92%