RC Drill Set 3, Question 1
While best known for her fiction, Edith Wharton(453 more words not shown)
The passage suggests that Wharton(16 more words not shown)
- ARepressive traditions can(15 more words not shown)
- BThe constraints imposed(16 more words not shown)
- CEmphasizing the strengths(12 more words not shown)
- DPeople must resign(16 more words not shown)
- ETraditions continue because(14 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Wharton doesn't think tradition is all bad. She wants women to advance, but she also sees value in the structure society provides. That's the same tension we saw in the house: walls limit the designer, yet also provide a framework to work within. For her view of cultural traditions, look for that combination of constraint and value.
Working the answers
- A
This explains slow change through resistance from people benefiting from tradition. Wharton's reason for retaining aspects of tradition is their value as structure; we aren't given this account of beneficiaries resisting reform.
- BCorrect
The end of paragraph 2 describes society as restrictive yet also a source of essential order (paragraph 2). This answer preserves both parts: tradition can burden people while making a valuable cultural framework possible.
- C
Wharton's views don't establish a rule that good literature must emphasize tradition's strengths. Her own fiction compassionately addresses women's difficulties, so appreciating structure doesn't mean ignoring its weaknesses.
- D
Respecting some traditions isn't the same as requiring resignation to all of them. Nor does the text justify tradition through a cultural consensus.
- E
This supplies a reason traditions endure: their wisdom supposedly exceeds individual wishes. Wharton values structure, but that doesn't establish this hierarchy of wisdom or explain why traditions persist.
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