Question

It can be inferred from the passage that a woman with a Ph.D. in psychology who gives a lecture to a group of students is probably MOST concerned with:

• A. whether her students learn the material.
• B. what the males in the audience think of her.
• C. how she comes off as a speaker in psychology.
• D. whether a man challenges her.

Answer 1

The correct option is C

how she comes off as a speaker in psychology.

This is an application question; we are asked to apply what we have learned from the passage to a hypothetical situation. The best way to analyze this question is to compare the speaker to a joke-teller. The passage paints a portrait of a woman as most concerned with the image she presents to the world. She is not concerned with the speech or joke, per se, rather with how she delivers it. “Only a man can make a good joke for its own sake.” The answer is (c).
Don’t make the mistake of choosing (b). Although men have, in the main, molded her self-image, she has gone beyond that; she now measures herself in the abstract: “how will it come off to the ultimately critical audience?” and not “how will actual audience members see me?”