Veritas Prep 10 Year Anniversary Promo Question #2

Winner:

Patthetuck

Official Explanation:

Answer is C

Each of these options features an introduction phrase concerning its modern-day status, and our pronoun check reveals that its means lobotomy’s: good. So lobotomy has a modern-day status, and it also had an initial status, and it would be legitimate, i.e. logical, to compare those two statuses (or, if we preferred, to compare a modern-day lobotomy to an early one or to some other procedure – perfectly valid to compare a procedure to a procedure). What would be illegitimate is what would be illogical: comparing lobotomy’s modern-day status to lobotomy itself – which is exactly the mistake answer choice (A) makes. Choice (D) arguably “tries” to remedy this problem by comparing status to that (where that is a pronoun representing status), but it soon runs up against another problem, as it winds up saying then that the status was hailed as a revolutionary technique – illogical in a new way, since a status could never be a revolutionary technique; it’s lobotomy that’s the technique. Choice (E) commits the same error. By employing the Despite... construction, choices (B) and (C) deftly avoid the comparison quagmire, but (B) later bombs with its improper use of a semicolon and its implication that lobotomy itself won the Nobel Prize (would make for a lame acceptance speech). (C) it is – proper semicolon usage and no comparison blunders.