PrepTest 102, Section 1, Question 12
While a new surge of critical interest in(470 more words not shown)
According to the passage, which(17 more words not shown)
- AThey reconciled Homer's(6 more words not shown)
- BThey acknowledged the(15 more words not shown)
- CThey occupied themselves(10 more words not shown)
- DThey emphasized the(4 more words not shown)
- EThey called for(5 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
After Milman Parry died, his successors focused on what oral poetry could and couldn't do. They studied the form's limits and possibilities instead of closely analyzing the individual poems. That's what we should find in the answer.
Working the answers
- A
No reconciliation with archaeological or historical concerns is described. The successors' narrow study instead drove other scholars toward archaeology and history.
- B
This describes Adam Parry's later contribution: keep the inherited tradition in view while emphasizing Homer's unique achievement. It isn't what the immediate successors did.
- C
That's the inquiry they abandoned. They abandoned close study of the poems to concentrate on oral composition’s rules and limits (paragraph 2).
- DCorrect
The “fixed elements and inflexibilities,” along with what oral poetry “can and cannot do,” describe its boundaries. D restates the focus we predicted.
- E
They didn't call for a popularity revival. We hear about the kind of scholarship they pursued, not a campaign to attract more readers to Homer.
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