carcass wrote:
In a recent study, David Cressy examines two central questions concerning English immigration to New England in the 1630s: what kinds of people immigrated and why? Using contemporary literary evidence, shipping lists, and customs records, Cressy finds that most adult immigrants were skilled in farming or crafts, were literate, and were organized in families. Each of these characteristics sharply distinguishes the 21,000 people who left for New England in the 1630s from most of the approximately 377,000 English people who had immigrated to America by 1700.
With respect to their reasons for immigrating, Cressy does not deny the frequently noted fact that some of the immigrants of the 1630s, most notably the organizers and clergy, advanced religious explanations for departure, but he finds that such explanations usually assumed primacy only in retrospect. When he moves beyond the principal actors, he finds that religious explanations were less frequently offered, and he concludes that most people immigrated because they were recruited by promises of material improvement.
Notes from the para -
Para 1 states broadly - A recent study was done to find out answer to two questions. First question's answer mentioned in this para.
Para 2 states broadly - Second question's answer mentioned in this para.
Moving to the questions now.
carcass wrote:
1. In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with
(A) summarizing the findings of an investigation
(B) analyzing a method of argument
(C) evaluating a point of view
(D) hypothesizing about a set of circumstances
(E) establishing categories
At the start of the para the author mentions 'In a recent study'.
Using this and analyzing options -
A)
summarizing the findings of an investigation - Yes investigation directly corresponds to study and in both para's we have summaries of the 2 points needed to be answered.
Seems best fit till now.B)
analyzing a method of argument - No argument is made here. Author is just trying to summarize the studies findings.
Hence incorrect.C)
evaluating a point of view - No point of view mentioned here. Only study and its findings.
Hence incorrect.D)
hypothesizing about a set of circumstances - No hypothesis. Only study and its findings.
Hence incorrect.E)
establishing categories - No categorization done.Only study and its findings discussed.
Hence incorrect.carcass wrote:
2. According to the passage, Cressy would agree with which of the following statements about the organizers among the English immigrants to New England in the 1630's?
I. Most of them were clergy.
II. Some of them offered a religious explanation for their immigration.
III. They did not offer any reasons for their immigration until some time after they had immigrated. IV. They were more likely than the average immigrant to be motivated by material considerations.
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) II and III only
(D) I, III, and IV only
(E) II, III, and IV only
I. Most of them were clergy. - Yes we know there were clergies involved but we have no proof that most of them were clergies.
Hence incorrectII. Some of them offered a religious explanation for their immigration. - Yes this is true. The principal actors (influential ones) offered this explanation but the less influential ones came because of promise of material improvements.
Hence correctIII. They did not offer any reasons for their immigration until some time after they had immigrated. - 2 types of reasons were offered because of which they migrated in the first place -
1. Influential ones - Religious explanations
2. Less Influential ones - Promise of material improvements
Hence incorrectIV. They were more likely than the average immigrant to be motivated by material considerations. - From the para we know the 2 reasons that were given by different types of people but we don't know but we don't know exactly who was more likely to go with which reason.
Hence incorrectHence answer is Bcarcass wrote:
3. According to the paSsage, Cressy has made which of the following claims about what motivated English immigrants to go to New England in the 1630's?
(A) They were motivated by religious considerations alone.
(B) They were motivated by economic considerations alone.
(C) They were motivated by religious and economic considerations equally.
(D) They were motivated more often by economic than by religious considerations.
(E) They were motivated more often by religious than by economic considerations.
There were two reasons for people to immigrate - Religious reasons AND Promise of material improvements.
From the last line of the para we have the answer clearly as 'D'
"When he moves beyond the principal actors, he finds that religious explanations were less frequently offered, and he concludes that most people immigrated because they were recruited by promises of material improvement."carcass wrote:
4. The passage suggests that the majority of those English people who had immigrated to America by the late seventeenth century were
(A) clergy
(B) young children
(C) organized in families
(D) skilled in crafts
(E) illiterate
In the last 2 lines of the first para we can find our answer -
"Cressy finds that most adult immigrants were skilled in farming or crafts, were literate, and were organized in families. Each of these characteristics sharply distinguishes the 21,000 people who left for New England in the 1630s from most of the approximately 377,000 English people who had immigrated to America by 1700."Because of this A, C and D are out. Option B is not mentioned in the para. So it is out of scope.
Hence our
answer is E
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