PrepTest 110, Section 1, Question 10
The term "blues" is conventionally used to refer(447 more words not shown)
The primary purpose of the(4 more words not shown)
- Auncover the shared(7 more words not shown)
- Bexamine the process(5 more words not shown)
- Cidentify the musical(4 more words not shown)
- Dexplore the sacred(6 more words not shown)
- Etrace the early(6 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The second paragraph goes further into what blues and spirituals share. It connects their mixture of sorrow and uplift to African American traditions, then to ancestral West African religious practices. So I'm looking for that development of the common ground between them.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Shared origin best captures the cultural connection the paragraph develops. Both forms “may be linked” to the traditions described, and the account of religious experience helps explain their shared transformative effect. The connection remains a proposed explanation, not a newly proved musical genealogy.
- B
Ecstasy appears near the end, but the paragraph doesn't primarily investigate how that psychological process works. It explains the term as part of the broader connection between these musical forms and cultural traditions.
- C
We aren't tracing a series of earlier musical genres that became blues. Spirituals aren't identified as a precursor to blues; both forms are linked to a common background. C also drops the spirituals side of the comparison.
- D
The writer doesn't divide blues into sacred and secular strains and explore each. The cultural tradition is introduced precisely because it doesn't sharply impose that division.
- E
We use the folk tradition to help explain the two genres, but we don't trace how that tradition itself developed. This changes the subject of the historical account.
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