PrepTest 116, Section 4, Question 16
In studying the autobiographies of Native Americans, most(441 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(22 more words not shown)
- Awritten by a(15 more words not shown)
- Bwritten by two(19 more words not shown)
- Ccompiled from the(14 more words not shown)
- Dwritten originally by(15 more words not shown)
- Ewritten by a(15 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Someone tells their own life story; someone from another culture helps put it into writing. That's the relationship behind “bicultural composite authorship.” The opening calls these as-told-to accounts and describes the collaborators as soliciting, translating, recording, and editing them.
What we’re looking for
Once we've put that into plain language, we can check whether each answer preserves those different roles.
Working the answers
- A
Drawing on artifacts and cultural traditions isn't the same as recording an individual's oral account of their life. Those artifacts appear later as forms the scholars have overlooked.
- B
The two contributors don't contribute in the same way. One supplies the life history; the other helps produce the written account.
- C
These aren't assembled writings by people whose identities cannot be determined. Neither feature describes the opening.
- D
Editing does occur, but the starting point is wrong. The account isn't first written by a member of one culture and then handed to someone else to revise. It is told to a collaborator who helps create the written document.
- ECorrect
This gives us the relationship we predicted: a member of one culture writes an account based on oral communication from a member of another. Both contribute, even though they do different things.
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