#22 - Global Reference, Purpose

[DaveFromSpace]

Did anyone read (B) as referring to an actual case? As in a specific law suit?

There's multiple definitions of the word "case".

The one used here is:

1. an instance of a particular situation; an example of something occurring.


but I read it as:

3. a legal action, especially one to be decided in a court of law.

The reason I thought "case" referred to a specific law suit is because of this sentence in the passage:

Several suits have been initiated by Native Americans... (lines 44-47).

[Adam Tyson]

That's one possible interpretation of that answer choice, DaveFromSpace, but if we read it that way, we have no good answer choices. That forces us to rethink that interpretation, and it makes just as much sense to think of "a real case" as the case of Native Americans and the Indian Nonintercourse Act. A particular situation that involves the more general principles outlined in Passage A. Passage A is about concepts, while Passage B is about a specific application in the real world of those concepts. That's more than enough to make B a good answer.