Passage+4+(40-54)


 * Samantha Lerner, Divya Yeleswarapu, Lyndsey Stewart, Michael Usewick, Tyler Stark, Matt Lieberman and Dennis Brookner **


 * 40. This question is asked to make sure the reader understands the sum of the passage and not just able to figure out questions based upon individual and at time more dissectible snippets. **


 * Choice (A) - Is incorrect because although it does refer to a few of women’s unique qualities it doesn’t focus on them. Instead it uses these qualities as evidence to back up the authors main goal. **
 * Choice (B) - Is correct, the entirety of the passage surrounds women’s education. It refers to the tragedy of the lack of it and also talks about how it is beneficial to our society as a whole. **
 * Choice (C) - This answer is clearly wrong. The passage does not focus on that issue at all. **
 * Choice (D) - This answer is incorrect because the article is not a “plea.” Rather the article is a well thought out essay on women’s education in the United States. **
 * Choice (E) - This answer attempts to use fancy words and sentence structure to trick the reader into choosing it as the right answer. **


 * 41. This question is asked to see if the reader understands an example of the passage’s use of symbolism. If the reader can answer this question it means they have a shot at properly understanding the passage. If they can’t grasp this example of symbolism than they likely cannot grasp the author uses of symbolism in the passage. **


 * Choice (A) - “Symbol of queenly grace” is clearly wrong. The passage does not try to paint a picture of women in that manner and doing so would be counterintuitive to the point the author is trying to make. **
 * Choice (B) - This answer is wrong because it would be painting an inherently wrong picture of women and the author has given us a factual well written essay. **
 * Choice (C) - This answer is right but not the best choice… it’s meant as an “easy” way out. **
 * Choice (D) - This answer is the most right because sceptre is clearly used as a symbol. The sceptre representing authority also fits in perfectly with the message the author is trying to get across to the reader. **
 * Choice (E) - This answer couldn’t possibly be right the word “sceptre” can’t be a metaphor on it’s own. **


 * 42. This question is asking for the purpose and function of the first paragraph of the passage. One needs to have a complete and thorough understanding of the passage as a whole but more importantly a firm grasp on the first paragraph. One essentially needs to know what the first paragraph is doing in reference to the entire passage as a whole. Proceeding from here one must know how to focus in on one single paragraph and develop an advanced understanding of it. It may be useful to re-read the paragraph to ensure the purpose is fully understood. One may want to search for the thesis statement in the first paragraph; this will guide them to the correct answer choice. A useful strategy from here is to use process of elimination and decide which answer best fits the question. **


 * Choice (A)- is the correct choice to the question because it effectively and accurately summarizes the purpose of the paragraph in reference to the rest of the passage. **
 * Choice (B)- is incorrect because it is not stating the function of the paragraph in reference to the passage but only the thesis statement. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice ( C)- is incorrect because the passage is not a narrative. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (D)- is incorrect because it is clearly not providing historical background materials. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (E)- is incorrect but the distractor option in this case because in a sense the passage as a whole is presenting a “case” or argument but the first paragraph is not an analysis so this answer choice is incorrect. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">43. This question asks to determine the meaning of a phrase in proper context. One needs to know the meaning and purpose of the phrase as well as the context that surrounds it. One needs to know how to look for keywords in the surrounding sentences that may provide a better understanding of what the phrase serves to do. One must be able to focus and comprehend the meaning of an individual phrase and relate it to the entire passage. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (A)- is incorrect because the phrase is referencing the “more important years” as the later years in life, instruction is first given during childhood so this answer could not be correct. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (B)- is incorrect for a similar reason as choice A is incorrect. This answer choice relates to childhood which we know is not the correct meaning of the phrase. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (C)- is incorrect because it does not make sense or have much relevance to the purpose of the paragraph. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (D)- is the correct answer choice because maturity is certainly reached in the later years of life and in context the phrase is discussing the “important years of life”, so this would certainly correspond with this answer choice. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (E)- is incorrect because it is most likely referencing childhood and the years when “age forces reliance” could not possibly be the “important years of life.” **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">44. This question is asking for the student to both understand the author’s intention in writing a specific sentence, and to find how this sentence functions within the paragraph. The question requires a student to consider a specific sentence in the passage from the author’s point of view and discover why she wrote that sentence the way she did. To answer this question correctly, the student must have read the passage thoroughly and have an understanding of the author’s message. The student must know that the sentence in question is a topic sentence of the paragraph that follows, and that topic sentences convey to the reader what the author will go on to discuss in detail in this paragraph. To answer this question correctly, the reader must also know how to derive meaning from a sentence written with more sophisticated diction, as well as how to ignore distractor or obviously wrong answers in order to find the correct answer. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (A)- is the correct answer because the author is attempting to appeal to the intelligence of those who support Rousseau's theories by saying she will reason with those who have “any knowledge of human nature,” therefore implying that those who support Rousseau’s theories are either un-intelligent, or behaving un-intelligently. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (B)- is the distractor option. While it may seem that this answer is correct, as the author certainly shows that she does not agree with Rousseau’s theories and therefore arguing is a logical function of an essay such as this, choice A is clearly the better choice as it is much more specific to what and how the author is arguing with Rousseau’s theories. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (C)- is incorrect as the sentence in question makes no mention of women, or anyone for that matter, resisting her ideas. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (D)- is incorrect because the sentence is speaking directly to those who have knowledge of human nature, which means she must assume the opposite of what this choice suggests, that her audience indeed has knowledge of human nature. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (E)- is incorrect because neither Rousseau’s theories nor the sentence in question contain any possible inclination that the audience has no experience of love, the passage is merely a certain woman’s ideas about love and what it has, or will, become. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">45. This question is asking the student to find how the author achieves a purpose she described in the sentence asked about in the previous question. The question requires the student to read the following paragraph to find the function and nature of the questions the author poses to reason with “the supporters of this opinion.” To answer this question, the student must know the many functions of questions in an essay, as well as how questions can function to deliver a person’s argument effectively by creating their own rhetorical situations for the reader to consider. The student must also know how the author answers these questions she poses in a strategic way in order to benefit her own argument. The correct answer to this question can most effectively be found by focusing on the author’s answers to the questions she poses because this is mentioned in every answer choice, and is the element about each choice that differs. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (A)- is incorrect because the author has no way of knowing that she expresses in this essay what the supporters have or have not considered as she never expresses direct contact with any supporters of Rousseau’s ideas. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (B)- is the distractor option because it does seem that the author is responding to each of her questions with emotion rather than concrete facts or data, however another answer option more clearly explains how the questions are answered in a stronger manner, and is therefore a better answer to the question. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (C)- is incorrect because the author directly answers each question she poses, and therefore cannot think that these questions have no answer. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (D)- is incorrect because the responses the author appoints to each question does not seem illogical as they are approached with reason and with a very scholarly, educated tone that makes the reader feel as if her answers are correct and logical. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (E)- is the correct answer as each question the author poses is not answered consistently by any means described in other choices, yet each question is strategically answered from the point of view of the author in order to get her point across to the reader to refute Rousseau’s ideas. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">46. This question is asked in the format of “According to the passage…is…because…” and is under the type Miscellaneous. The first thing one needs to know to answer the question correctly is to understand what it is asking. In order to understand what the question is asking, one needs to closely and completely read the entire passage to grasp the overall concept of the reading. The answer to the question can be found in line 24, paragraph three. After locating the specific sentence the question prompts one to, one needs to use context clues to know that “sunbeams” are “oblique” because of the reason found in the passage. Using other knowledge found in the excerpt can also help in leading one to the correct answer because it is relating the specific question to the bigger idea of the passage. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (A)- Is incorrect because it is basically the opposite of what the words mean in context of the passage. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (B)- Is the correct answer because as it pertains to the rest of the passage, it shows how the writer feels about marriage and how the efforts are repeated so often that the husband no longer can appreciate these acts. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (C)- Is incorrect because the question is not literally asking about how sunbeams are cast, it is rather a metaphor. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (D)- Is incorrect because the passage does not discuss who is casting the sunbeams. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (E)- Is incorrect but could be a distracter because the passage discusses how women’s efforts are unnoticed by men over time, however when one looks closely this choice does not correctly answer the question because the husband is not distorting her efforts but he just does not notice them. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">47. This question is asking for the closest meaning of a word in context of the passage. In order to interpret the meaning of a word in context, one must look at the entire paragraph the word is placed in. One also needs general knowledge of the word because this will help them find context clues to guide them to the correct answer. The most important thing in answering this type of question is to understand the surrounding words and tone because those are the biggest indicators of other words meanings. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (A)- Is incorrect because the word in context has no relevance to strong dislike. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (B)- Is incorrect because it is almost the exact opposite of the correct definition, the author is also not saying that the women are losing faith but rather they are stuck in their ways. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (C)- Is incorrect because the women’s thinking is not new, however the answer choice could be seen as a distracter because one could see it in relation to the correct answer. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (D)- Is the correct answer because the writer is discussing how the women are being held down in their existing beliefs. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (E)- Is incorrect because the women are not approving anything and has no relation to the correct definition. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">48. This question is asking to find the purpose served in an excerpt from lines 39-47. In order to properly answer this question, one must first carefully analyze and understand the portion of the passage emphasized in the question. The first step is blocking off a section of the passage, surrounding but not limiting to, the lines stated in the question. To make sure no details are missed, a safe estimate would be to block off lines 34-48. In this portion, the author relates how love becomes replaced with opposite feelings such as jealousy or vanity when the husband falls out of love. She is appealing to women whose husbands are negligent to their wants and needs, and women that desire to be happy, but for some reason can not. At the end of the excerpt, line 47, the author introduces how pleasing a man is unnecessary. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (A) - Is incorrect because the passage is describing how women should not attempt to please their husbands **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (B) - Is incorrect because the passage relates how women deserve to be happy and that they should strive to achieve this goal, not viewing looking “into herself for comfort” as pointless **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (C) - Is incorrect because the author groups principle and prejudice together, not as conflicting opinions **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (D) - Is incorrect because the author describes how women are not responsible for pleasing their husbands, and the consequences of efforts to please are not discussed **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (E) - Is correct because this metaphor was stated at the beginning of the excerpt, which the author further elaborates on by contrasting the desire of pleasing growing weak and love transforming into negative emotions **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">49. In this question, the answer is found in discovering what “the great art of pleasing” means. To achieve the goal of answering the question correctly, one must first grasp the understanding of the meaning in the context without looking at the answer choices. The phrase in quotations lies on line 47, so the part of the passage one should block off is approximately lines 46-48. One does this in order to pick up additional context clues rather than the ones that simply fall in the given line. On lines 47-48, the author writes “How then can the great art of pleasing be such a necessary study? it is only useful as a mistress” By analyzing the context, the reader can then further decipher that when the author states that “the great art of pleasing” is “only useful as a mistress” that she means it is generally unnecessary, unneeded, trivial, and i **** nsignificant.  **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (A) - Is correct because minimal is along the lines of something being trivial and insignificant. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (B) - Is incorrect because deepening means to amplify or strengthen, not unnecessary **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice C - Is incorrect because enthusiastic means to excited and passionate, not insignificant **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (D) - Is incorrect because excessive means abundant and overflowing, not trivial **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (E) - Is incorrect because ambivalent means uncertain and inconclusive, not unneeded and insignificant **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">50. This question serves the purpose of a comprehension question. It is a Word Phrase Meaning question. The reader is being asked to analyze what he has read in the passage so far so that they can pinpoint the true meaning of the word “being” in line 55. The reader needs to have understood the general idea of the passage and what it is talking about. When the reader understands that it is about being against controlling marriage and the social ties it brings, he will understand what the author is referring to in line 55. One needs to be able to read carefully as to not mix up the true intent of the author. The most important thing in answering this question is reading all the surrounding lines in the last paragraph extra cautiously. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (A) - Is incorrect because the author isn’t talking about a woman’s relationship to a daughter, it is about the relationship in a marriage. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (B) - Is incorrect because the passage doesn’t even mention anything about the relationship with friends. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (C) - Is incorrect because the passage doesn’t even mention anything about the relationship with a father. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (D) - Is correct because the entire surrounding paragraph, including the concept of the entire passage, all deal with marriage and the relationship between husband and wife. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (E) - Is incorrect because it wouldn’t even make sense in context. One would not rely on oneself to like infirmities with oneself. It is not what the passage even talks about. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">51. This question is a style/tone question which asks the reader to analyze the passage. The reader needs to have annotated the passage to see what specific things the author talks about and what methods the author uses to get there. The reader also needs to be able to decipher how the author felt when writing the passage. One needs to know how to read closely and understand the general idea of the reading. This question is only asking for an overall classification of the entire passage which can be answered by paying attention. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (A) - Is incorrect because the passage is not fictional. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (B) - Is correct because the author is making an appeal to the reader about marriage and it is reasoned off of much logic and factual information. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (C) - Is incorrect because the author is definitely not dispassionate. In fact, she is extremely passionate! Also, she is not analyzing something, she is putting her view across. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (D) - Is incorrect because the author is not writing in a formal way. Also, she is not petitioning for anything, she is merely stating her viewpoint. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (E) - Is incorrect because although the passage is quite dramatic, she is not placing accusations. Once again, she is stating her opinion. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">52. This question is related to the main topic of the passage. More specifically, it requires the test taker to identify the writer’s opinion regarding the subject. As nearly all writing is opinionated in some way, it is important for a reader to be able to identify the author’s stance on the topic. The ability to detect a writer’s belief is an important piece of procedural knowledge, and one that is crucial to answering this question. For this question in particular, the test taker must understand the presentation in the passage of love, passion, and marriage. No outside information is strictly necessary, though an understanding through experience of love and passion is helpful. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (A) is wrong. A main theme of the passage is that passion and reason should NOT be equal. In this first paragraph, the author speaks of “restraining this tumultuous passion,” with reason presented as the alternative—not an accompaniment. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (B) is wrong. The author believes that reason is a much higher level of fulfillment than love. She refers to love as a “thoughtless enjoyment” for youth. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (C) is right. The purpose of the passage is to praise the value of reason. As the author suggests, love must be subjected to reason. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (D) is wrong. Though a delay of marriage seems to be a logical conclusion of the author’s point, it is an extrapolation. The author never presents the delay of marriage as a solution. Only the use of reason in marriage is discussed. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (E) is wrong. Though education is mentioned briefly, there is no mention of to which gender the teacher should belong. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">53. This question asks about the tone of the passage. Each answer choice includes two tone words, and the reader must pick which set of two words is the best. The test taker must know how to identify tone in a passage. The test taker must also know the definitions of all (or at least most) of the tone words presented. Then, the test taker must be able to hone in on the section of the passage about which the question asks. The question asks specifically about the “reflections on married love.” Thus, the test taker’s knowledge of the passage as a whole must give way to a more specific understanding of that concept within the passage. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (A) is wrong. The passage follows logically from start to finish, and it does not contradict statements made earlier in the passage. Even if minor instances of this occurred, the words “illogical” and “contradictory” are too strong to fit the overall tone. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (B) is wrong. The description of married love could be described adequately as “romantic.” However, it lacks in optimism. Most of the paragraph discusses the negative side—the way things are currently—and avoids looking hopefully into the future. The faint bit of optimism in the final sentence is not enough to qualify as overall tone. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (C) is right. The final paragraph, as well as the entire passage, is very terse and matter-of-fact. It is correctly described as “serious.” In addition, much of the paragraph is spent describing the dangers of marriage, effectively warning young girls about men. This is correctly described as “cautionary.” **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (D) is wrong. It is possible to describe the last paragraph as inflated, using that term to mean that the author exaggerates in her description. However, the passage is in no way “glamorous.” Rather, it seriously describes a serious topic. It does not attempt to be extravagant or flaunty, as some writers of love might. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (E) is wrong. The passage is neither speculative nor shallow. The author seems to speak with the confidence of not only personal experience but also a wealth of others’ experiences. Her information is thus confirmed, not speculative. The analysis runs deep into the meaning of marriage and love, and is in no way shallow. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">54. This question asks about the purpose of the passage. The test taker is asked to describe the author’s purpose for writing the passage. In other words, what did the writer hope to accomplish through the passage? It is important for the reader to note that though the previous question dealt with a specific part of the passage, this question returns to the passage as a whole. To successfully answer this question, the test taker should have some idea of the passage’s purpose prior to reading the answer choices. They might even speculate about the potential choices. The test taker must understand the writer’s stance on love and marriage, and understand the change that the author would like to see and hoe she accomplishes it. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C **** hoice (A) is wrong. The author never suggests faith as an alternative, likely because she does not see it as a possible outcome. She thinks that men are inherently unfaithful. For this reason, she would not see it as an effective goal to try to induce faithfulness in young people.  **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (B) is wrong. Though the lack of sincerity of love, and specifically the frugality of marriages that do not include love, is mentioned in the passage, it is not the overarching theme. In a way, her assertion that love can be insincere is so strong that it is not a question—it is a statement. She also does suggest that love is occasionally sincere, and that among youth, it is very sincere. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (C) is right. As a feminist, the eventual goal is to change the perception of women in the world. In a feminist passage about love, the goal is to progress the perception of male/female relations. The author presents a problem with the goal of changing readers’ opinions on the issue. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (D) is wrong. The last paragraph does deal primarily with the hardships of married women. However, in combination with the rest of the passage, the overall purpose shifts away from specific revelations and more toward an overall perception shift. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choice (E) is wrong. Education is hardly mentioned in the passage. Though the author likely supports improved education for women, it is extrapolation to name that as the overall goal of the work. **