The television documentary went beyond

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct82% picked this

   the preservation of wildlife may endanger

   Why this is right

   The most enticing part of this answer is the soft language of "may". It's also alluring because it combines the "save-the-elephant" wildlife conservation sentiment from the first sentence with the "these elephants trampled our farm" concern from the second sentence. Preserving elephants in East Africa may endanger the welfare of human farmers, as there seems to be no way to protect these farms from herds of night-raiding elephants.

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

   82%
2. B

   Too Strong2% picked this

   it is time to remove elephants from the list of

   Too Strong: time to remove them Out of Scope: endangered This paragraph hasn't identified the elephants as endangered, so we don't have any momentum for "time to remove them from the list of endangered species!"

   2%
3. C

   Too Strong: incapable5% picked this

   television documentaries are incapable of doing more than reiterating

   The author said that "some documentaries remote from East Africa" contain wildlife pieties. That's a far cry from saying that documentaries are incapable of doing more than regurgitating pieties (which sounds like it would apply to all tv documentaries). This answer choice is also more or less contradicted by the fact that the documentary that this paragraph is talking about "went beyond the usual pieties", so clearly tv documentaries are capable of doing more than regurgitating accepted pieties.

   5%
4. D

   Too Strong: should work closely w/11% picked this

   farmers and agricultural agents should work closely with wildlife conservationists before taking measures

   This sounds like the author is saying "farmers shouldn't try to control elephants by themselves ... they should work closely with conservationists". That would demonstrate a fear that if farmers were to try to control elephants by themselves, they would wipe out the elephant population. The author doesn't appear to be afraid of this or speaking from a place of concern for the elephants. The author sounds more like she's saying, "these pious western documentaries are all about saving the elephants, but locals are wondering who's gonna save them from the elephants!"

   11%
5. E

   Out of Scope: unfair / food shortages1% picked this

   it is unfair that people in any country should have to

   This paragraph discusses farms being raided by elephants, but it doesn't indicate that there is any food shortage that results, nor does it sound like it's complaining about how unfair food shortages are.

   1%