8-94 Q.22.

[lathlee]

Hi. I got this question two times wrong before and the reason is following:

in line 67, witch trials in salem and beyond as indicative, i thought that beyond as future. but according to the authors beyond means Europe. this is why i eliminated E as the correcr answer twice prior and chose A) as the correct answer . also witch trials as in not really of literally witch trials but of sense in how Mr. Trump used as , political witch hunt, as in picking out and attack as witch hunt.

Now I know A and E both contain main point elements of passage B . what am i doing wrong here

what i am doing wrong here

[James Finch]

(Note this is actually on 8-94)

Hi Lathlee,

There's a reason that the term "witch trials" is used instead of "witch hunt:" trials is an unambiguous reference to literally putting people on trial for witchcraft, whereas witch hunt is almost always used metaphorically to describe a purge of people on unwarranted and baseless grounds. Actually putting people on trial for witchcraft in the future, while possible, is not likely, nor does the author of passage B suggest that it would be, so answer choice (A) is suspect on those grounds. More importantly, B seems concerned with drawing lessons from the witch trials about patriarchal society rather than worried about a possible recurrence.

Answer choice (E) fits more closely with this understanding, as it describes the switch trials as a symptom of patriarchal society, rather than as simply a social ill in their own right.

Hope this clears things up!