PrepTest 119, Section 1, Question 11
Joy Kogawa's Obasan is an account of a(442 more words not shown)
It can be inferred that(13 more words not shown)
- Areconciliation with her(1 more words not shown)
- Bcareful deployment of(3 more words not shown)
- Crelationship with her(2 more words not shown)
- Drenewal of her(2 more words not shown)
- Edenunciation of the(2 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Where does Naomi's transformation end? After the separation and alienation, she receives family records, confronts her past, and comes to terms with her history. That's where I'd look for how her heroism is manifested: what her growth actually amounts to.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Her reconciliation with the past is the culmination of that growth. The second paragraph describes her breaking through silence and secretiveness and reconciling herself with her history. A connects the heroic transformation to the understanding she reaches.
- B
The careful use of structure and symbols is Kogawa's work as a novelist, not an achievement Naomi performs. This confuses the writer's technique with the character's transformation.
- C
The surrogate family nurtures Naomi through the process. That relationship helps her develop, but it isn't the final reconciliation through which her transformation is expressed.
- D
We aren't told that Naomi renews religious beliefs. Christian symbols are part of Kogawa's literary technique; they don't establish Naomi's own religious history.
- E
The novel criticizes the majority culture, but we aren't given an act in which Naomi denounces it. The described culmination is coming to terms with her past.
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