PrepTest 120, Section 2, Question 10
The Cultural Revolution of 1966 to 1976, initiated(454 more words not shown)
The primary function of the(4 more words not shown)
- Aintroduce the set(18 more words not shown)
- Backnowledge the inescapable(9 more words not shown)
- Cexplain the transformation(13 more words not shown)
- Dpresent a hypothesis(16 more words not shown)
- Eshow that the(16 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The first paragraph explains the restrictions of Revolutionary Realism. It sets up the starting point: artists were required to show the politically approved version of socialist life. The following paragraphs then describe artistic reactions to that pressure. I'd predict an introduction to the ideas that prompted the later movements.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The political requirements and artistic rules are introduced first; Scar Art and Native Soil are then explained as reactions. A connects the paragraph's content to its job in the whole discussion.
- B
Political and artistic ideas are closely linked in this particular account. That doesn't establish that the connection is inescapable throughout China, and making that general claim isn't the paragraph's purpose.
- C
The focus is the effect on art, not a general explanation of how Chinese society was transformed.
- D
We aren't given a hypothesis that the later paragraphs refute. We get a description of restrictive ideas and then an account of the reactions they produced.
- E
Revolutionary Realism already existed before the Cultural Revolution, which intensified it. The later movements also aren't simply described as continuing that same political realism. E misstates both the timing and the relationship.
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