PrepTest 115, Section 1, Question 20
Donna Haraway's Primate Visions is the most ambitious(431 more words not shown)
In the second sentence of(20 more words not shown)
- Aunderscore the importance(8 more words not shown)
- Bhighlight the need(9 more words not shown)
- Cemphasize the fact(13 more words not shown)
- Dcriticize the excessive(12 more words not shown)
- Echaracterize the writing(7 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
My first thought is that this shows how Haraway breaks with established practice.
What we’re looking for
But why call the earlier discussion rhetoric? Look at what those historians said they wanted and what they actually managed to do. That should make the contrast more precise.
Working the answers
- A
The sentence isn't arguing for clearer writing. It concerns joining scientific theory and practice with social issues and beliefs.
- B
Historians aren't being told to study language. Rhetoric describes their talk about integrating those two kinds of subject matter, not a proposed new field of study.
- CCorrect
Historians called for integration for decades, yet they struggled to overcome the division in practice (paragraph 4). Rhetoric emphasizes talk that hasn't become practice. Haraway's next-sentence refusal to respect the division shows how her approach goes further. That is the specific break from tradition our initial prediction was reaching for.
- D
Form versus content isn't the contrast. The problem is keeping scientific and cultural subject matter apart despite advocating their union, not caring too much about presentation.
- E
The rhetoric belongs to other historians' calls for change. It doesn't characterize Haraway's writing or analysis; her practice is introduced as the contrast.
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