PrepTest 119, Section 1, Question 14
Joy Kogawa's Obasan is an account of a(442 more words not shown)
The passage suggests that Joy(13 more words not shown)
- AIt discouraged its(6 more words not shown)
- BIt endeavored to(7 more words not shown)
- CIt violated its(7 more words not shown)
- DIt prohibited its(7 more words not shown)
- EIt demanded that(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The final paragraph calls the symbolism a critique of the majority culture's professed ethics. That sounds like hypocrisy: this society claims certain values but mistreats Naomi and her people. I'd look for that gap between its religious principles and its conduct.
Working the answers
- A
The account describes mistreatment and forced relocation, but doesn't say the society discourages its citizens from learning about their heritage.
- B
This turns the literary account of heroic transformation into a claim that society deliberately tries to prevent that transformation. That purpose isn't established.
- CCorrect
Kogawa's Christian imagery criticizes the society's “professed ethics.” The suggestion is that its treatment of Japanese Canadians violates the religious values it claims to uphold.
- D
Rites of passage supply a structural comparison for Naomi's story. Nothing says society prohibits citizens from participating in such rites.
- E
We aren't told that the government demands loyalty to itself in place of loyalty to family. The family's disruption doesn't by itself establish that demand.
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