Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. Our attitudes and values inevitably affect how we act, and it is the same with politics. The functioning of

political institutions at least partly reflects the attitudes, norms, and expectations of the citizenry. Thus the English use their constitutional institutions to sustain their liberty, while the same institutions were turned into instruments of repression in South Africa and Northern Ireland. Gabriel Almond, et al., Comparative Politics Today, 7th ed.

A) Argument, conclusion: The same institutions were turned ... Northern Ireland.

B) Argument, conclusion: Our attitudes and values ... same with politics.

C) Argument, conclusion: The English use ... South Africa and Northern Ireland.

D) Argument, conclusion: The functioning of political institutions ... the citizenry.

E) Nonargument.


E

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