PrepTest 123, Section 4, Question 5
For decades, there has been a deep rift(452 more words not shown)
In the passage the author(19 more words not shown)
- Apoets and fiction(13 more words not shown)
- Bthe methods used(19 more words not shown)
- Cpublishers often pressure(8 more words not shown)
- Da suspicion of(11 more words not shown)
- Efiction is more(6 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Why would writers insist on staying in separate territories? The second paragraph's proposed answer is that U.S. culture distrusts generalists. If you work in several fields, people may suspect you aren't truly accomplished in any of them. That gives writers a reason to protect their standing by sticking to one genre. The word “perhaps” keeps this tentative: the writer offers it as a possible cause.
Working the answers
- A
This would make the divide a matter of each group thinking its own craft is superior. The stated suspicion concerns spreading one's efforts across fields, not which field is better.
- B
Separate training is an example of the divide. Different training methods aren't offered as the reason it developed.
- C
No publisher is said to pressure writers into specializing.
- DCorrect
The writer points to a “suspicious eye on the generalist.” If crossing into fiction could make people question your ability as a poet, you have a reason to avoid doing both. This connects the cultural suspicion to the writers' separation.
- E
The text doesn't compare how widely the genres are read or respected, much less use that comparison to explain the rift.
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