Help with a Confusing and Hard Reading Passage

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<p>These are 2 questions I really didn't understand and I need someone to help me explain the answer to them.</p>

<p>...Hence when Churchill sought to rouse the British, he brought the Germans to the beaches, landing grounds, fields, streets, and hills of "our island." So, too, to arouse fears the popularizers have to present pictures of imminent calamities that could befall their relatively comfortable and well-off readers. Environmental disasters like endemic waterborne disease due to inadequate sewage treatment in faraway nations do not fit this category. The prospect of my getting skin cancer due to ozone depletion does. Without such immediacy, one could only arouse a sentiment like compassion, which is not as strong as fear. </p>

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<li>The author of Passage 1 uses the example in lines 42-43 (line 6 in this case) ("the prospect...does") to
A) describe a personal experience
B) imply that the subject should not be frightening
C) elicit sympathy from the reader
D) demonstrate a psychological fact
E) emphasize the prevalence of a crisis</li>
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<p>First question is from Test 6 section 7 in the blue book. </p>

<p>...Douglass supported the society but took issue with the move led by secretary Amelia Bloomer to limit to women the right to hold its offices. He aligned himself with Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in opposing this as a violation of the "principle of human equality" - a violation, in short of men's rights. Douglas felt that by excluding men from office the society would lose supporters in the battle against those in the temperance movement who wished to deny women equal rights. How, he asked, could women effectively contend for equality in the movement when they denied it to men? In June 1853, the society accepted the logic of this position and admitted men to office.</p>

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<li>The passage suggests that Stanton and Anthony prevailed against Bloomer (line 21-30) because their position
A) defied the male status quo
B) asserted women's political rights
C) opposed Douglass' ideas
D) was recognized as bring politically wise
E) had financial consequences</li>
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<p>This is from the blue book test 6 section 9.</p>

<p>I will post the answers in a bit.</p>

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<p>1 D. I use the process of elimination. A is wrong because the author is not stating an event from his experience but an example of a statement that would influence him psychologically. B is wrong because the author is trying to say just the opposite. C is wrong because author doesn’t need any sympathy here since he is not talking about real experience. D - correct because he is telling example which would influence people psychologically. E is wrong because it is out of context.</p>

<p>There must be a mistake in passage 2 since in second line it should be “limit to men the right”. 2 D. Again, process of elimination. A is wrong because it is out of context. B is wrong because their position was “equal rights for all”. C is wrong because Douglass supported their view. D - passage may not seem like stating anything about their position as being “politically wise” but the process elimination makes it sure that this answer at least can’t be denied while others are clearly wrong. E is wrong because it has nothing to do with the text.</p>