PrepTest 119, Section 1, Question 13
Joy Kogawa's Obasan is an account of a(442 more words not shown)
According to the passage, the(8 more words not shown)
- Aher reunion with(2 more words not shown)
- Bthe exile of(2 more words not shown)
- Cher critique of(3 more words not shown)
- Dher separation from(4 more words not shown)
- Eher receipt of(3 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
“Agent” here means what brings the reconciliation about. Go back to the moment when Naomi moves beyond the silence surrounding her past. What sets that process in motion? She receives the family documents and letters.
Working the answers
- A
No reunion with her parents is described. We can't use a hoped-for ending as evidence.
- B
Her parents' exile helps create the painful history she must confront. It isn't what enables her to understand and reconcile herself with that history.
- C
Criticism of the majority culture is the novel's other effect. Here we're asking what prompts Naomi's personal reconciliation, not how the book criticizes society.
- D
We aren't told that she separates from her aunt and uncle. They provide the surrogate family that nurtures her.
- ECorrect
The second paragraph links receiving the documents and letters to breaking through the silence and coming to terms with her history. Those records bring about the reconciliation.
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