Do you think Plato's dialogue format is an effective way to make an argument?

Yes

Explanation:

Socratic irony is used to weed out the good arguments from the bad by a method that is similar to the scientific method. That is, Socrates would ask a series of questions, and discard the arguments which became absurd when subjected to scrunity (reductio ad absurdum), eventually arriving at the correct conclusions.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

i believe your answer is d)