501 Critical Reading Questions

b. The passage anticipates the arguments of those in favor of
women’s right to vote and refutes them.
107.
c. Novel means new and not resembling something known or used
in the past. Choice b, original, could fit this definition but its
connotation is too positive for the context.
108.
a. Passage 2 describes woman-suffrage societies as thoroughly organized,
with active and zealous managers (lines 14–15). Choice b, coura-
geous, is too positive for the context of the passage.
109.
a. Passage 2 states that every one . . . knows that without female suf-
frage, legislation for years has improved and is still improving the con-
dition of women (lines 24–27).
110.
d. Passage 2 emphasizes how well women are served by judges in
line 35. Passage 1 does not refer to this issue at all.
111.
b. Passage 1 describes men as fighters by nature (line 37), but not
women. Passage 2 describes women as incapable of performing mil-
itary duty (lines 4–5).
112.
d. Passage 1 addresses its audience in the second person, whereas
Passage 2 does not. Passage 1 also refers to its audience as friends
(line 14) and brothers (line 18).
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Questions 113–116 are based on the following passage.
The following paragraph details the design of New York City’s Central Park.
Although it is called Central Park, New York City’s great green space
has no “center”—no formal walkway down the middle of the park, no
central monument or body of water, no single orienting feature. The
paths wind, the landscape constantly shifts and changes, the sections
spill into one another in a seemingly random manner. But this “decen-
tering” was precisely the intent of the park’s innovative design. Made to
look as natural as possible, Frederick Law Olmsted’s 1858 plan for Cen-
tral Park had as its main goal the creation of a democratic playground—
a place with many centers to reflect the multiplicity of its uses and users.
Olmsted designed the park to allow interaction among the various
members of society, without giving preference to one group or class.
Thus, Olmsted’s ideal of a “commonplace civilization” could be realized.
113.
In lines 3–5, the author describes specific park features in order to