PrepTest 102, Section 1, Question 9
While a new surge of critical interest in(470 more words not shown)
According to the passage, the(18 more words not shown)
- Aconsiderations of why(8 more words not shown)
- Banalyses of the(8 more words not shown)
- Cstudies in the(6 more words not shown)
- Danalyses of the(7 more words not shown)
- Ecritiques of the(6 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What made these works great poetry? That's what Weil and Auerbach wanted to explain. The first paragraph names them and tells us their concern in the same sentence.
What we’re looking for
Then it contrasts them with specialists asking historical questions. Keep those two groups separate as we check the answers.
Working the answers
- A
That's a concern of the writer explaining this history, not the research project assigned to Weil and Auerbach.
- BCorrect
In paragraph 1, they studied what made the narratives of the war and its aftermath “great poetry.” Literary qualities is another way to say that.
- C
This is about the history and nature of oral poetry. Weil and Auerbach were examining the literary qualities of the particular poems.
- D
The inherited tradition belongs to the background research discussed elsewhere. It isn't what the sentence about Weil and Auerbach says they studied.
- E
They analyzed the poetry, not the academics' analyses. The writer contrasts the two groups, but that doesn't mean Weil and Auerbach themselves wrote critiques of the other group's work.
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