(D) Private employers discriminate; it is possible that government employers discriminate.

   (E) Private employers discriminate; government employers do not discriminate.

 

3. A study of the practices of financial institutions that revealed no discrimination against self-employed women would tend to contradict which of the following?

   (A) Some tentative results of Fuchs's study

   (B) Some explicit results of Brown's study

   (C) A suggestion made by the author

   (D) Fuchs's hypothesis

   (E) Sanborn's hypothesis

 

4. According to Brown's study, women's earnings categories occur in which or the following orders, from highest earnings to lowest earnings?

   (A) Government employment, self-employment, private employment

   (B) Government employment, private employment, self-employment

   (C) Private employment, self-employment, government employment

   (D) Private employment, government employment, self-employment

   (E) Self-employment, private employment, government employment

 

5. The passage explicitly answers which of the following questions?

   (A) Why were Black workers excluded from the sample used in Brown's study?

   (B) Why do private employers illuminate more against women than do government employers?

   (C) Why do self-employed women have more difficulty than men in hiring high-quality employees?

   (D) Why do suppliers discriminate against selfemployed women?

   (E) Are Black women and Black men treated similarly by employers and consumers?

 

6. It can be inferred from the passage that the statements in the last paragraph are most probably which of the following?

   (A) Brown's elaboration of his research results

   (B) Brown's tentative inference from his data

   (C) Brown's conclusions, based on common-sense reasoning

   (D) The author's conclusions, based on Fuchs's and Brown's results.

   (E) The author's criticisms of Fuchs's argument, based on Brown's results.

 

7. Which of the following titles best describes the content of the passage as a whole?

   (A) The Necessity for Earnings Differentials in a Free Market Economy.

   (B) Why Discrimination Against Employed Women by Government Employers and Private Employers Differs from Discrimination Against Self-Employed Women by Consumers.

   (C) How Discrimination Affects Women's Choice of Type of Employment

   (D) The Relative Effect of Private Employer Discrimination on Men's Earnings as Compared to Women's Earnings

   (E) The Relative Effect of Discrimination by Government Employers, Private Employers, and Consumers on Women's Earnings

 

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