PrepTest 104, Section 3, Question 9
Personal names are generally regarded by European thinkers(443 more words not shown)
The author most likely refers(14 more words not shown)
- Aoffer an example(12 more words not shown)
- Bapply a commentator's(10 more words not shown)
- Ccontrast Western Apache(6 more words not shown)
- Ddemonstrate that other(9 more words not shown)
- Eexplain how a(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The Western Apache comparison helps explain why a name can seem poetic. A commentator called those place names “tiny imagist poems,” and the author says Hopi personal names display the same quality. We're borrowing that description to illuminate the Hopi example.
Working the answers
- A
The hidden references in “beautifully ascended” were explained earlier. We aren't given an Apache name and its translation to illustrate a hidden reference here.
- BCorrect
A description already applied to Apache place names also fits Hopi personal names: each can evoke a vivid image in very few words. That's the connection the sentence makes.
- C
“The same quality” signals a similarity. The author isn't explaining how the naming practices differ.
- D
The reference may suggest that other names have meaning, but its job here is more specific. It supplies a description of their poetic quality and applies that description to Hopi names. It isn't merely adding another culture to a list of meaningful names.
- E
The specific Hopi name refers to a procession up the mesa at Oraibi, not to a Western Apache site. The Apache reference is a comparison, not part of that name's meaning.
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