PrepTest 125, Section 1, Question 14
Aida Overton Walker (1880–1914), one of the most(470 more words not shown)
The author describes the socioeconomic(14 more words not shown)
- Aargue that the(11 more words not shown)
- Bdetail the social(14 more words not shown)
- Cidentify the target(9 more words not shown)
- Dindicate why a(12 more words not shown)
- Eexplain why European(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Why tell us about industrialization, immigration, and social mobility? That changing society contained many different audiences. An art form with several layers of appeal had an advantage. The cakewalk's complicated history helps explain why it suited that setting.
Working the answers
- A
A setting favorable to success isn't the only setting in which success was possible. We aren't told the cakewalk could never have become popular under other conditions.
- B
The original blend developed before the Civil War. This paragraph describes turn-of-the-century conditions that favored its later appeal, not the earlier circumstances that produced the blend.
- C
The targets of the parodies were identified earlier: first slave owners and their behavior, then the cakewalk itself. This social background explains audience appeal, not whom the dancers were mocking.
- DCorrect
The paragraph connects a changing, varied society with the need for an art form to be “many things to many people.” The cakewalk's layered character made that environment favorable to its success.
- E
This narrows the point to European American parodies. The paragraph explains the broader appeal of the cakewalk with its accumulated influences, not just the success of those parodies.
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