#23 - Concept Reference, Must Be True, Subject Perspective

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (A).

Answer choice (A): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E):


This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[fayonio]

Hi; I thought the answer was B because in the first paragraph it said that the activists were more militant in the 1960s and 1970s. While in Paragraph two, they were talking on the diversity of opinions by the different activist groups. Where did I mess with my thinking? Thank you.

[evelineliu]

Hi Fayonio,

(B) is incorrect because it is out of scope. Garcia never argued that the political diversity of Mexican-American activists decreased over time. Lines 7-10 deal directly with the 1930s and 1940s, where Garcia provided evidence that activists from these decades anticipated reforms pushed by activists in later decades, so the correct answer will be an inference based on this. That makes (A) correct.

Hope that helps!
Eveline

[noreen.lodi@aol.com]

Would you mind posting a full explanation to this question please? I put C but that was really a guess, why is the answer A and what made the other choices wrong? Thank you!

[Rachael Wilkenfeld]

Sure Noreen!

This question asks us what Garcia would think about the Mexican American activists of the 1930s and 40s. To answer this question, we want to look at what the author says Garcia believes the activists of that time period. It can get confusing because the author of this passage is generally critical of Garcia's position. Therefore, you need to be clear on what Garcia believes and what the author believes.

According to the first paragraph, Garcia believed that Mexican American activists in the 1930s and 40s anticipated many of the reforms of later activists. If they were anticipating and moving toward the ideas of those in the later movements, that must mean that the earlier activists had at least some similar goals to those of the later period.

Answer choice (A): This is the correct answer. This answer choice describes what we expected to see. The activists from the 30s and 40s must have had some similar concerns to those of the later period because they were able to anticipate the concerns of the later activists.

Answer choice (B): According to the second paragraph, Garcia is inconsistent regarding the political diversity of the activists. Therefore, we wouldn't be able to draw a conclusion regarding Garcia's views one way or the other.

Answer choice (C): This is inconsistent with the information in the first paragraph stating that the activists of the later period were the more militant of the activists. We'd eliminate this answer choice for that reason.

Answer choice (D): This comes from the final paragraph. However, we can't say that "most" of the activists from that period advocated for bilingual education and equal rights for resident aliens. The paragraph states that some of the leaders of the 1930s through 1960s wanted those rights, but the passage specifically states that it's unclear how wide a viewpoint this was. The passage does not support that it was a majority of the activists that would advocate that position.

Answer choice (E): This is also inconsistent with the information in the passage. In the second paragraph, it explicitly states that Garcia believed that the activists were interested in liberal reform, and not revolution. This is an example of an opposite answer choice.

Hope that helps!