(C) Which groups are not in ethnic competition with each other in the United States?
(D) What explanation did the Marxist sociologist give for the existence of racial prejudice?
(E) What evidence did the Marxist sociologist provide to support his thesis?
18. The author considers the Marxist sociologist's thesis about the origins of racial prejudice to be
(A) unoriginal (B) unpersuasive
(C) offensive (D) obscure (E) speculative
19. It can be inferred from the passage that the Marxist sociologist would argue that in a noncapitalist society racial prejudice would be
(A) pervasive (B) tolerated (C) ignored
(D) forbidden (E) nonexistent
20. According to the passage, the Marxist sociologist's chain of reasoning required him to assert that prej- udice toward Oriental people in California was
(A) directed primarily against the Chinese
(B) similar in origin to prejudice against the Jews
(C) understood by Oriental people as ethnic competition
(D) provoked by workers
(E) nonracial in character
By 1950, the results of attempts to relate brain processes to mental experience appeared rather dis- couraging. Such variations in size, shape, chemistry, conduction speed, excitation threshold, and the (5) like as had been demonstrated in nerve cells remained negligible in significance for any possible correlation with the manifold dimensions of mental experience.
21. The author suggests that, by 1950, attempts to cor- relate mental experience with brain processes would probably have been viewed with