Diagnostic Test 2 Practice Test

Educational psychologist Lina Duarte claims that in online courses, peer feedback improves long term retention only when two conditions are met: the comments must be elaborated rather than brief approvals, and they must arrive within 24 hours of a student's submission. She argues that timeliness amplifies cognitive processing while the material is still active in working memory, and that elaboration supplies the missing rationale students need to revise misconceptions. Duarte acknowledges that instructor feedback can matter, but says peer comments are uniquely frequent and scalable in large classes. She also notes that while any feedback can boost next day quiz scores, the combination of elaboration and speed is what predicts learning that persists weeks later. If her claim holds, course platforms should prioritize features that nudge peers to give substantive comments promptly.

Which finding, if true, would most directly weaken the scholar's claim?

Debates over a famous early North Atlantic elegy often treat the ocean as a backdrop for human choice, but I contend the poem casts the sea as an active arbiter of fate. In this view, the voyager is not merely choosing hardship; he is compelled, summoned, and steered by forces embodied in the water itself. A translation that preserves this agency will foreground verbs of command and decision assigned to the sea, not the sailor. The poem's force comes less from descriptive seascape than from the sea's authoritative will, which directs journeys beyond human intention. Lines that depict the ocean as an actor, not a setting, best capture the work's fatalism.

Which quotation from a new translation most effectively illustrates the critic's claim?