PrepTest 121, Section 2, Question 11
In spite of a shared language, Latin American(426 more words not shown)
Based on the passage, the(19 more words not shown)
- AThis relationship has(12 more words not shown)
- BThis relationship forces(13 more words not shown)
- CThis relationship is(8 more words not shown)
- DThis relationship infuses(13 more words not shown)
- EThis relationship results(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
I'd describe the relationship as nostalgic: Spanish poetry looks back toward an ideal culture of the distant past and is reluctant to embrace new movements. We need a view that captures that attachment without inventing what readers think of the poems or what poets are forced to write.
Working the answers
- A
A desire to return to an idealized past isn't a critical examination of that past. A gives us a questioning attitude where the writer describes romantic attachment.
- B
Nothing says poets are forced to choose subjects they feel little connection to. Attachment to a tradition doesn't establish that kind of alienation from their subject matter.
- C
The relationship influences the poetry's outlook, but that doesn't make the relationship itself the central subject of many poems. Being shaped by nostalgia and writing poems chiefly about that relationship are different claims.
- DCorrect
The third paragraph describes the desire to return to an idealized culture from long ago, while the second describes reluctance toward innovative movements. Together, those details support a nostalgic outlook resistant to the modern era.
- E
We aren't told how contemporary Spanish readers respond. Conservative poetry might interest them or bore them; the writer doesn't settle that question.
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