24. According to the passage, one difference between The Feminine Mystique and The Second Sex is that Friedan's book

(A) rejects the idea that women are oppressed

Wrong. Friedan was the prophet of woman's emancipation.
Why, then, was it Friedan who became the prophet of women's emancipation in the United States?

(B) provides a primarily theoretical analysis of women's lives

Wrong. It is The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir that provides a theoretical reading of the woman's situation.
...and highly pragmatic The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, than Beauvoir's theoretical reading of women's situation in The Second Sex.

(C) does not reflect the political beliefs of its author

Wrong. There is no information to prove this.

(D) suggests that women's economic condition has no impact on their status

Wrong. While the passage mentions that Simone de Beauvoir's conclusion "that change in women's economic condition, though insufficient by itself, "remains the basic factor" in improving women's situation", the passage does not state that Betty Friedan's book suggests that women's economic condition has no impact on their status

(E) concentrates on the practical aspects of the question of women's emancipation

Correct.
Political conditions, as well as a certain anti-intellectual bias, prepared Americans and the American media to better receive Friedan's deradicalized and highly pragmatic The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, than Beauvoir's theoretical reading of women's situation in The Second Sex.



25. The author quotes from The Nation most probably in order to

Window of Reference:

In 1953 when The Second Sex first appeared in translation in the United States, the country had entered the silent, fearful fortress of the anti-communist McCarthy years (1950-1954), and Beauvoir was suspected of Marxist sympathies. Even The Nation, a generally liberal magazine, warned its readers against "certain political leanings" of the author.

(A) modify an earlier assertion

Wrong. It continues to establish the earlier assertion that Beauvoir had Marxist sympathies.

(B) point out a possible exception to her argument

Wrong. Again, it continues the argument and does not point out a possible exception to her argument.

(C) illustrate her central point

Correct. By quoting The Nation, the author illustrates (provides an example) to her central point that Beauvoir had Marxist sympathies.

(D) clarify the meaning of a term

Wrong. She is not clarifying the meaning of any term.

(E) cite an expert opinion

Wrong. She does not quote from The Nation to cite an expert opinion. In the passage, The Nation or its articles is not mentioned as an expert on this subject.



26. It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following is not a factor in the explanation of why The Feminine Mystique was received more positively in the United States than was The Second Sex?

Window of Reference:

Political conditions, as well as a certain anti-intellectual bias, prepared Americans and the American media to better receive Friedan's deradicalized and highly pragmatic The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, than Beauvoir's theoretical reading of women's situation in The Second Sex.

(A) By 1963 political conditions in the United States had changed.

Wrong. Political conditions, as well as a certain anti-intellectual bias, prepared Americans and the American media to better receive Friedan's deradicalized and highly pragmatic The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, than Beauvoir's theoretical reading of women's situation in The Second Sex.

Choice A is a factor in the explanation of why The Feminine Mystique was received more positively in the United States than was The Second Sex.

(B) Friedan's book was less intellectual and abstract than Beauvoir's.

Wrong. Political conditions, as well as a certain anti-intellectual bias, prepared Americans and the American media to better receive Friedan's deradicalized and highly pragmatic The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, than Beauvoir's theoretical reading of women's situation in The Second Sex.

Choice B is a factor in the explanation of why The Feminine Mystique was received more positively in the United States than was The Second Sex.

(C) Readers did not recognize the powerful influence of Beauvoir's book on Friedan's ideas.

Correct. There is no evidence in the passage to suggest that The Feminine Mystique was positively received because the readers did not recognize the powerful influence of Beauvoir's book on Friedan's ideas.

(D) Friedan's approach to the issue of women's emancipation was less radical than Beauvoir's.

Wrong. Political conditions, as well as a certain anti-intellectual bias, prepared Americans and the American media to better receive Friedan's deradicalized and highly pragmatic The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, than Beauvoir's theoretical reading of women's situation in The Second Sex

(E) American readers were more willing to consider the problem of the oppression of women in the sixties than they had been in the fifties.
Choice D is a factor in the explanation of why The Feminine Mystique was received more positively in the United States than was The Second Sex.

Wrong. Open acknowledgment of the existence of women's oppression was too radical for the United States in the fifties, ...

Choice E is a factor in the explanation of why The Feminine Mystique was received more positively in the United States than was The Second Sex.



27. According to the passage, Beauvoir's book asserted that the status of women

(A) is the outcome of political oppression

Wrong. No information in the passage to support this.

(B) is inherently tied to their economic condition

Correct.

....and Beauvoir's conclusion, that change in women's economic condition, though insufficient by itself, "remains the basic factor" in improving women's situation, was particularly unacceptable.


(C) can be best improved under a communist government

Wrong. No information to support this assertion. She was only suspected of having Marxist sympathies.

(D) is a theoretical, rather than a pragmatic, issue

Wrong. Beauvoir's book gave a theoretical reading of women's situation, but did not assert that the status of women is a theoretical , rather than a pragmatic issue

(E) is a critical area of discussion in Marxist economic theory

Wrong. No information in the passage to support this.