I'm lost!

Started by Miller · started 2017-11-04 17:52 · last activity 2019-01-31 00:48 · 3 replies

The correct answer seems to be more of what the colonial attitude is instead of what the English attitude is. Can you please explain how to get (E) as the correct answer?

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  1. Shiyi-Zhang · 2019-01-23 11:45

    I have the same question. Could someone explain this question?
  2. Shiyi-Zhang · 2019-01-30 21:27

    Could someone explain this question to me?
  3. Ravi · 2019-01-31 00:48

    @Miller and @Shiyi-Zhang, Happy to help. To clarify, could you confirm that the question you're reading states, "The author mentions which one of the following as evidence for the eighteenth-century English attitude toward Parliament?" Also, could you confirm the answer choices you're seeing are (A) The English had become uncomfortable with institutions that could claim absolute authority. (B) The English realized that their interests were better guarded by Parliament than by the King. (C) The English allowed Parliament to make constitutional changes by legislative enactment. (D) The English felt that the King did not possess the knowledge that would enable him to rule responsibly. (E) The English had decided that it was time to reform their representative government. On the actual test, this is what I'm seeing on the screen. However, on the screen that's showing the correct answer, I'm seeing some different answer choices with (E) being correct. However, I think this is a glitch and have alerted our technical team about it. Let's go over this question. The question stem is asking us to select the answer that the author stated as evidence for the eighteenth-century English attitude toward Parliament. The key portions of the passage to look at are lines 30 to 32, where the author states, "The most unmistakable sign of this tendency was the legal assertion that the King was subject to the law" and lines 34 to 36, where the author states, "went the assertion that the Parliament was unlimited in its power: it could change even the Constitution by its ordinary acts of legislation." The whole third paragraph is about showing the eighteenth-century English attitude toward Parliament, and these two statements are offered as evidence. (C) says the English allowed Parliament to make constitutional changes by legislative enactment, and this is exactly what lines 34 to 36 tell us. This is the correct answer. (A) is incorrect because it's not mentioned as support. (B) is incorrect because while it might be true that the English realized that their interests were better guarded by Parliament than by the King, the question is asking us to pick an answer that the author MENTIONS in the passage, and (B) is not mentioned at all as evidence. We can get rid of it. (D) is not mentioned at all, so we can get rid of it. (E) is also not mentioned, so we can eliminate it. Does this make sense? Let us know if you have any more questions—we're here to help!

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