PrepTest 123, Section 1, Question 9
Countee Cullen (Countee Leroy Porter, 1903–1946) was one(461 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(14 more words not shown)
- AIt often deals(5 more words not shown)
- BIt often employs(6 more words not shown)
- CIt avoids traditional(7 more words not shown)
- DIt sometimes deals(4 more words not shown)
- EIt eventually subsumed(8 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This is a NOT question, so four choices should match features we've read about. We know Cullen uses established forms, addresses racial issues, and increasingly places those issues within religious themes. Check the specific claims against that picture and the text. The answer will be the feature we cannot attribute to him.
Working the answers
- A
Love and death are the first paragraph's examples of universal subject matter. This is identified, so it isn't our NOT answer.
- B
The first paragraph lists all three: rhyme, classical allusions, and religious imagery. We can cross this off.
- CCorrect
This reverses what we know. Cullen “preferred controlled poetic forms” and used traditional European forms; he isn't described as avoiding them to experiment.
- D
Uncle Jim and Incident explicitly address racial experiences. That gives us examples of this feature.
- E
The last paragraph says his thoughts on race were “subsumed within” broader questions about the soul. Racial issues became part of the religious discussion, so this feature is identified, too.
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