Q22

[uhdang]

This is essentially Must Be True Except question, where each answer choice has specific reference to the passage. For this question, it's very clear where we can find the references.

A) Supported in 23-24
B) Supported in 20-24.
C) Supported in 15-20.
D) Not supported. We don’t know anything about being removed while we do know that King appointed them. (Correct)
E) Supported in 15-20.

[jeff.wongkachi]

This is essentially Must Be True Except question, where each answer choice has specific reference to the passage. For this question, it's very clear where we can find the references.

A) Supported in 23-24
B) Supported in 20-24.
C) Supported in 15-20.
D) Not supported. We don’t know anything about being removed while we do know that King appointed them. (Correct)
E) Supported in 15-20.

I ended up picking the right answer for this, but I see a little bit of an issue with ruling out answer choice B) because it states "All (all American colonies?)" but in line 15-16 it states "all but 4" and then it says in line 20-21 "each of these colonies (referring to all but 4?)" so technically, isn't B not actually supported? It is not true that all of the colonies had representative assemblies by the middle of the 18th century because there are 4 that did not have royal gov'ts and also did not have representative assembly. Where am I going wrong here?

For D, I came to the conclusion because English Institutions were moving towards absolute power of Parliament which meant even the king was subject to the law, meaning he could be removed. It is stated that Colonial attitudes are quite different and that they do not believe in absolute power. At the very least, this implies that they might not be able to, but it also doesn't really state anything definitive along with giving me the idea that they would be against it compared to an English assembly.

[maryadkins]

The passage says all but four were headed by royal governors. This is not in the same sentence as the sentence about "these colonies" having an assembly modeled after English Parliament. "These American colonies" was previously used in line 14-15, so "these colonies" refers logically to all of them.

Agreed on (D), not supported by any stretch.