Should the writer make this addition here?
A) Yes, because it gives a broader context to the achievement of women’s suffrage.
B) Yes, because it helps to ease some of the political rhetoric in the rest of the passage.
C) No, because it does not contribute in a significant way to the discussion of the
gender pay gap.
D) No, because the question of gender pay is irrelevant when all football players are
men.Here’s How to Crack It
The proposed sentence does contain an interesting bit of information, but that piece of information has no
clear place either in these few sentences or in the passage as a whole. Therefore, it should not be added,
thus eliminating (A) and (B).
Then, because it does not play a significant role in the passage, the sentence should not be added for the
reason stated in (C). While (D) may be true in a way, it does not reflect anything clearly relating to the
role the sentence might play in the passage as a whole. Read literally, and answer as literally and
precisely as you can.
CONSISTENCY QUESTIONS
Just as questions should be answered as precisely as possible, they should also be answered with
information that is consistent with what’s in the passage.
When answering consistency questions, keep this general rule in mind:
Writing and Language passages should be judged on what they do say, not on what they could say.
When dealing with Style, Tone, and Focus, make sure to work with the words and phrases the
passage has already used.Let’s look at two questions that deal with the idea of consistency.
[1] One need look no further than to the idea of the “traditional” family. [2] The shift,
however, has yet to produce a substantive increase in how women, who are now nearly as
likely to work as men, are paid. [3] In this idea, the father of the family earns the family wage
6 and gives the children his last name. [4] With such an idea bolstering what many consider to
be the goal inherent in the “American dream,” it is no wonder that women in the workplace
should have a somewhat degraded position. [5] Shifting social and economic roles, however,
have begun to change how people think about gender roles within the family. 7