Most students arrive at [college] using “discrete, ... ...

If students were asked to write essays on the different concepts of tragedy as exemplified by Cordelia and Antigone, and they all responded by showing how each character exemplified a traditional definition of tragedy, we could, according to the passage, hypothesize which one of the following about these students?
(A) The students were locked into the relativist stage.
(B) ...
(C) ...
(D) ...
(E) ...

*This question is included in Nova Press: Set E - RC Practice