PrepTest 124, Section 4, Question 3
Asian American poetry from Hawaii, the Pacific island(475 more words not shown)
The author of the passage(17 more words not shown)
- Adescribe the social(12 more words not shown)
- Bdeny that Hawaiian(10 more words not shown)
- Cidentify the process(10 more words not shown)
- Drefer to the(15 more words not shown)
- Eemphasize the changing(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
“Flux” suggests change, but we need the surrounding sentence to see what is changing. Start with its subject: the immigrants in Lum's poem. Their presence connects him to his ancestral culture and to Hawaii's mixture of people and cultures.
What we’re looking for
So the phrase concerns change within that diverse society. It doesn't automatically tell us that the people are fighting or abandoning their beliefs.
Working the answers
- A
A mixture of backgrounds doesn't by itself establish social tension. This sentence isn't describing conflict among Hawaii's residents.
- B
The first paragraph explicitly distinguishes Hawaii from the continental U.S. This phrase doesn't deny that difference.
- C
We aren't being shown the steps by which an immigrant learns to fit into a new community. The focus is on the changing society to which immigrants contribute.
- DCorrect
The reference to immigrants and “heterogeneity” connects the flux to Hawaii's diverse population. The culture changes as people from different backgrounds contribute to it.
- E
This shifts the change from Hawaiian society to individual immigrants' attitudes toward their traditions. Their presence can affect the wider culture without establishing that they have changed their minds about their own cultural norms.
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