Q4

[sbrandt85]

Doesn't the author affirm that the Downstate campaign relied on CORE. The author also affirms that many ministers sought election to political office as well. I narrowed my answer choices to B and D. I don't understand why B is incorrect.

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

Based on your post on Q3, I think you've conflated CORE with the religious ministers.

We have two groups of folks:

1. CORE - a "national" civil rights organization

2. Religious ministers who ended up leading the Downstate campaign after the leaders of CORE asked them to

Q4 asks for what the author affirms - basically what can we confirm in the passage? We can confirm that many ministers of African American congregations ran for political office in (lines 38-39) - answer choice (D).

Let's just take a look though at the incorrect answers:

(A) is unsupported. We are not told about other civil rights organizations.
(B) is contradicted. In (lines 9-11) the passage suggest otherwise. Though if you have the groups mixed up, I could see why you were stuck here.
(C) is contradicted. In (lines 56-60) the passage indicates that the interest included both the North and the South after the downstate campaign.
(E) is contradicted. In (lines 51-54) this passage states that the deal did not achieve such a pledge.

Does that answer your question?

[JorieB701]

So we just treat this like a must be true question basically? You say, "what we can confirm with the passage," so a correct answer to this question could feasibly come from anywhere, correct?

Does that mean that whenever we come across a question worded this way we should simply dive straight into the answer choices and eliminate only those that are obviously wrong, deferring on the rest until down to a couple attractive options, then attempting first to prove the one we find to be the most attractive or easiest to prove? Is that the suggested strategy?