PrepTest 108, Section 4, Question 18
Robin D. G. Kelley's book Hammer and Hoe(420 more words not shown)
The primary purpose of the(4 more words not shown)
- Acontrast Kelley's viewpoint(9 more words not shown)
- Bdefend the Popular(6 more words not shown)
- Cquestion the political(10 more words not shown)
- Denumerate the differences(8 more words not shown)
- Eargue that one(20 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Other historians emphasize alliances between radicals and liberals. Kelley focuses on African-American organizing. That difference changes how the Popular Front looks: promising from one perspective, much less helpful from the other. Paragraph 2 is setting up that contrast.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
We might initially call this a difference in focus rather than viewpoint. But the focus leads to a different assessment: “From that point of view” the Popular Front is “much less of a blessing.” Viewpoint fits the actual comparison; we shouldn't reject it just because we predicted another word.
- B
The author isn't defending the Popular Front against Kelley. We're being introduced to his different way of assessing it.
- C
We don't question whether radicals and liberals should find common ground. The earlier historians' viewpoint is called understandable. Kelley simply studies a different concern.
- D
The Third Period enters in paragraph 3. Paragraph 2 compares historians' approaches, not a list of differences between the two periods.
- E
This makes the paragraph a defense of why Kelley's method is valid. Instead, it tells us how his approach differs from earlier scholarship and how that changes his view of the Popular Front. A identifies the specific work the paragraph does.
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