Question

read the excerpt from \a latina judge’s voice\ by hon. sonia sotomayor.
i also hope that by raising the question today of what difference having more latinos and latinas on the bench will make will start your own evaluation. for people of color and women lawyers, what does and should being an ethnic minority mean in your lawyering? for men lawyers, what areas in your experiences and attitudes do you need to work on to make you capable of reaching those great moments of enlightenment which other men in different circumstances have been able to reach? for all of us, how do we change the facts that in every task force study of gender and race bias in the courts, women and people of color, lawyers and judges alike, report in significantly higher percentages than white men that their gender and race has shaped their careers, from hiring, retention to promotion, and that a statistically significant number of women and minority lawyers and
what is sotomayor’s intended purpose in posing three powerful questions in a row?
○ sotomayor is creating a tone of confusion that will challenge the audience to ask their own questions.
○ sotomayor develops a structure of repetition so the audience is better able to answer the questions.
○ sotomayor wants the audience to learn how to deliver a powerful speech on diversity in the courtroom.
○ sotomayor wants the audience to pose serious questions of their own about diversity on the bench.

Explanation:

• Analyze Option 1: Creating confusion is not the intent; she aims to prompt reflection, not confusion. Eliminate.
• Analyze Option 2: The repetition of questions is to prompt the audience to think, not to help them answer her questions. Eliminate.
• Analyze Option 3: The focus is on diversity in the bench, not teaching speech delivery. Eliminate.
• Analyze Option 4: The three questions are about diversity on the bench (ethnic minority in lawyering, men's self - improvement, changing bias facts). She wants the audience to think deeply and pose their own serious questions about diversity in the judiciary. This matches.

Answer:

D. Sotomayor wants the audience to pose serious questions of their own about diversity on the bench.