RC Drill Set 5, Question 10
Richard L. Jackson's most recent book, Black Writers(461 more words not shown)
According to the passage, which(15 more words not shown)
- AThey contain depictions(15 more words not shown)
- BThey show greater(11 more words not shown)
- CThey demonstrate that(12 more words not shown)
- DThey are based(10 more words not shown)
- EThey served as(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
For the 1920s poems, the writer grants Guillén an awareness of social problems missing from certain peers' work. The next sentence moves to the early 1930s and compares authenticity. The question asks about the first group, so our prediction is greater attention to poverty, unemployment, and discrimination.
Working the answers
- A
Nothing says the 1920s portrayals are less realistic. Even the later criticism only denies that greater authenticity has been established; it doesn't establish less authenticity.
- BCorrect
The poems show awareness of “poverty, unemployment, and racial discrimination” absent from peers influenced by the Negrista movement. That is the stated comparison.
- C
No claim about founding the Negrista movement appears. Jackson's effort to separate Guillén from it doesn't establish his role in its origins.
- D
Awareness of poverty or discrimination doesn't prove firsthand experience. We're told what the poems address, not how Guillén learned about it.
- E
Comparing later portraits doesn't establish that Palés Matos or Ballagas used Guillén's earlier poems as models. Similarity and influence are different claims.
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