Reading Comprehension: Detail Questions

What is stated in the passage about the second-wave women's movement?

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The passage tells us that Professor Aronson's work attempts to gain a better picture of some of these ramifications (of the second-wave women's movement).

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This answer choice has the two generations mixed up - Aronson studied post feminist women in light of the second-wave movement; she did not study women who were part of the second-wave movement.

Incorrect.

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The passage does not state that Professor Aronson's research focuses on the effects upon the personal lives of women, only that it focuses on women of the post feminist generation and how they view feminism.

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This answer choice incorrectly claims Aronson chose one generation over the other as a focus for her study, but the passage states that her work focuses on the effects of the second-wave women's movement on the post feminist generation.

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According to the passage, Prof. Aronson's research did not revolve around effects in the lives of individual women, but around these women's view of feminism.

Professor Aronson's research focuses on women who came of age during the second-wave women's movement.
Professor Aronson's research attempts to explain the effects of the second-wave feminist movement upon the personal lives of women who came of age in the 1980s and 90s.
The consequences of the second-wave women's movement were the inspiration for Professor Aronson's research on women of the post feminist generation.
Even though the second-wave women's movement had many effects, Professor Aronson chose instead to study the post feminist generation.
Professor Aronson's work focuses on how the effects of the second-wave women's movement on the lives of individual women have influenced the lives of individual women of the post feminist generation.

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