Like
sagarraj1986, I'm a bit skeptical that B is the OA for Question 3 (I just took MCAT Test #4, it's one of the RC questions there). Maybe
RonPurewal can provide some insight?
As stated in the official explanation:
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On the GMAT, a correct inference is not a guess about what might be true, but rather a statement of what must be true based on the facts presented in the passage. Be careful to justify your answer with proof from the passage.
But that's the thing. B would be correct if we assume that white colonists, in coming to America, brought with them their slaves, therefore making the slaves by extension, white colonists themselves. TECHNICALLY, the passage supports this ("When they first arrived in America as slaves in the 1600s, Africans joined a society that was divided between master and white servants brought from Europe."). Here's the big but though. B specifically says "interbreeding
between white colonists and African Americans." That implies BOTH white colonist masters and their white servants.
You're all probably thinking by now that I'm splitting hairs at this point, but the passage does make the distinction that while white slaves and masters were part of the larger "colonist" group, so I think it's fair to dissect the question to this degree. Furthermore, the first sentence of par. 2 specifically talks about white servant women, and not white servant masters, so the blanket nature of "white colonists" as in answer B is inaccurate as the passage specifically refers to white slaves and not their white masters:
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In fact, despite the efforts of the various colonial legislatures, white servant women continued to bear children by African American fathers through the late seventeenth century and well into the eighteenth century.
It's honestly all semantics but it would make more sense imo if B specifically said "Some colonial legislatures passed laws to prevent interbreeding between
white slave women and African Americans." This removes ambiguity, and by extension, the need to bring in outside assumptions.