SAT Evidence Question
The Clouds is a 423 BCE play by Aristophanes, originally written in ancient Greek. At the time, professional intellectuals called sophists taught customers rhetorical techniques to use in public speaking, along with providing instruction in other subjects. In the play, Aristophanes satirizes sophists as teaching students how to be persuasive without regard for what is morally good, as seen when the character ______. Which choice most effectively uses a quotation from a translation of The Clouds to illustrate the claim?
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The trap here
Command of Evidence: true is not the same as supporting — The wrong choices are accurate statements from the text. What they fail to do is support the specific claim.