PrepTest 116, Section 4, Question 18
In studying the autobiographies of Native Americans, most(441 more words not shown)
The author of the passage(17 more words not shown)
- Aidentify concepts about(8 more words not shown)
- Bdefine a word(16 more words not shown)
- Cillustrate how words(12 more words not shown)
- Dposit a fundamental(14 more words not shown)
- Eexplain how the(6 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The author says these Native American peoples did not share Europeans' assumptions about self, life, and writing. Those are the ideas we then unpack: identity includes relationships, life experiences can be expressed as they happen, and expression extends beyond writing.
What we’re looking for
So I'd expect an answer about identifying the ideas on which the cultures differ.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
This states that job directly. The three concepts set up the contrasts developed in the following paragraphs.
- B
The sentence does connect these concepts with the roots of “autobiography.” But we aren't comparing the word's meaning for early Native Americans with its meaning for contemporary Native Americans. That changes the comparison.
- C
There is no account of a word entering a language and then changing meaning. Different cultural assumptions aren't a history of linguistic change.
- D
The sentence emphasizes different assumptions, not a fundamental similarity in the concept's origins.
- E
We learn what some of the assumptions are, not how the European assumptions arose. Describing a difference doesn't explain its historical cause.
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