PrepTest 110, Section 4, Question 14
Tragic dramas written in Greece during the fifth(450 more words not shown)
The primary purpose of the(3 more words not shown)
- Aargue against one(5 more words not shown)
- Bestablish that there(8 more words not shown)
- Cpresent aspects of(7 more words not shown)
- Dpoint out the(9 more words not shown)
- Esuggest the relevance(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Our first main-point idea was that Greek tragedies explore autonomy. We refined it because the focus is the scholars' disagreement: Snell emphasizes free decision, Rivier divine necessity, and Lesky the interaction between divine pressure and personal desire. The writer presents those views without choosing a winner.
What we’re looking for
Keep our own reaction separate. Relating this to free will in real life can help us think, but it isn't automatically the writer's purpose.
Working the answers
- A
Rivier disputes Snell, and Lesky disputes both views. Those are the scholars' arguments being reported. The writer doesn't adopt one attack as the argument of the whole discussion.
- B
We aren't surveying a variety of themes. We're examining different interpretations of one central issue: personal autonomy versus divine power.
- CCorrect
The opening announces “considerable scholarly debate,” and the rest explains positions within it. This matches the refined main-point prediction: what the scholars disagree about and how they interpret the dramas.
- D
Explaining competing interpretations isn't the same as judging their relative strengths. The writer reports the scholars' criticisms without independently telling us which view is better.
- E
This describes a broader philosophical connection we might make ourselves. The writer stays with scholarly interpretations of the plays, rather than arguing for their relevance to a wider debate about human motivation.
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