Reading Comprehension

PT159 · S4 · P1 · Q4 Condorcet And Gouges

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In France in the early 1790s, the French Revolution, which sought to establish universal individual rights in French society, inspired several arguments for women's rights.

Your task

Identify why the author included the referenced detail at that point in the passage — its function, not its content.

Common trap

Answers that merely repeat or summarize the topic of the detail instead of describing the role it plays.

Winning move

Ask what job the detail does for the paragraph, then for the passage's broader point.

4.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the author's primary purpose in using the terms "battled" (last sentence of the first paragraph) and "war" (first sentence of the last paragraph)?

  1. to underscore the fact that

    Trap

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  2. to indicate the propaganda Gouges

    Trap

    4% picked this

  3. Correct

    to emphasize Gouges's views that

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

    Skill tested: Local Purpose · how this choice captures the passage's function is the move to repeat next time.

    93% picked this

  4. to suggest Gouges's support of

    Trap

    0% picked this

  5. to stress Gouges's belief that

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