Contralto Marian Anderson's quiet submission to the rules of segregati

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Contralto Marian Anderson's quiet submission to the rules of segregation when she toured the South with the Metropolitan Opera, showed her politics to be  quite unlike those of bass Paul Robeson whose support of  black nationalism resulted in government persecution.

A. quite unlike those of bass Paul Robeson whose support of

B. quite unlike bass Paul Robeson whose support of

C. very different from bass Paul Robeson and his support of

D. very different from bass Paul Robeson who supported

E. very different from bass Paul Robeson's who supported

daagh · Accepted Answer

Here Anderson’s politics are compared to the politics of Robeson. According to Kaplan, politics is plural in the context and hence the use of ‘those’ in choice A. 
I agree that when we discuss specific cases of politics such as Anderson’s politics or Robeson’s politics, the norm will be to treat politics as plural, although it is considered singular in a broader sense such as when it refers the art of governance and management. So A is the correct choice.

dominicraj · Answer

Hi Daagh,

I selected A because others look so bad. But is "politics" not singular?

IMO option A should read like "...,showed her politics to be quite unlike  that  of..."

Regards,
Dom.

daagh · Answer

As I said, politics is plural when we discuss the politics of individuals as in the text ; When we broadly talk about overall politics, it is singular IMO

manojach87 · Answer

The correct form is: Politics is out of scope. Politics, like mathematics, linguistics, economics, and other domains ending in -ics, is syntactically singular. Can we not say that this question is not GMAT like?

ynk · Answer

Can anyone please explain why 'E' is wrong here ?

warriorguy · Answer

My 2 cents:

X's who supported black nationalism resulted in government persecution.

--- Possessive. Quality or feature of X and not X himself. Secondly, the latter part is awkward.

B,C and D compare politics with the individual.

My explanations are not usually credible. So some of the V experts can throw light on this.

Davinder1209 · Answer

E is wrong because of the difference between WHO SUPPORT & WHOSE SUPPOSE OF BLACK NATIONALISM.

WHO SUPPORTED MEANS HE WAS SUPPORTING SOMETHING

WHOSE SUPPORT OF : SOMEONE SUPPORTED HIM.

Hope i make some sense and helped you

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