PrepTest 110, Section 4, Question 13
Tragic dramas written in Greece during the fifth(450 more words not shown)
All of the following statements(15 more words not shown)
- AThey are required(9 more words not shown)
- BTheir final choices(5 more words not shown)
- CThey cannot rely(7 more words not shown)
- DThey are compelled(5 more words not shown)
- EThey are aware(4 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Return to Snell: the characters face two serious alternatives, find their usual assumptions inadequate, examine their deepest motives, and then make a free personal decision. Four answers should fit that account. We want the one that adds something Snell's discussion doesn't give us.
Working the answers
- A
Being required to confront a choice doesn't mean being forced to choose one particular option. Snell’s characters face two options, both with serious repercussions, but decide between them (paragraph 1). This fits.
- BCorrect
Nothing says their final choices restore harmony with supernatural forces. We hear about a difficult decision and personal autonomy, not reconciliation with the gods. That is the missing claim.
- C
Their established ideas about thought and action break down (paragraph 1). They can't simply rely on their customary assumptions about what to do.
- D
They must “reexamine their deepest motives.” That directly supports confronting those motives before acting.
- E
They are given two alternatives and deliberate before deciding. That supports knowing the available choices. Snell treats the alternatives as real; Rivier later disputes that interpretation.
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