PrepTest 104, Section 3, Question 14
Personal names are generally regarded by European thinkers(443 more words not shown)
The author's primary purpose in(5 more words not shown)
- Apresent an anthropological(4 more words not shown)
- Bpropose a new(6 more words not shown)
- Cdescribe several competing(3 more words not shown)
- Dcriticize two influential(3 more words not shown)
- Eexplain the cultural(3 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The Hopi names aren't just an interesting naming tradition dropped into the discussion. They do argumentative work: they show what Mill's and Lévi-Strauss's accounts leave out. Our prediction is a criticism of those influential views, using the Hopi examples to make it concrete.
Working the answers
- A
The author certainly discusses Hopi names, but primarily to challenge broader accounts of what names do. Calling this an anthropological study leaves out why those details are presented.
- B
The question being explored is what names mean and do, not how names first originated. No new theory of their origin is proposed.
- C
Several views are described, but the author takes a position on them. The Hopi examples support a criticism of two views rather than a neutral survey of competing theories.
- DCorrect
Mill and Lévi-Strauss supply the two influential views. The author accepts that names identify and classify, then uses Hopi names to show why those functions don't exhaust their meaning and aesthetic value.
- E
Cultural background helps explain particular names, but explaining origins isn't the overall purpose. Those examples serve the broader criticism of the two theories.
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