PrepTest 125, Section 1, Question 17
Aida Overton Walker (1880–1914), one of the most(470 more words not shown)
It can be inferred from(18 more words not shown)
- ABecause of the(18 more words not shown)
- BThe interactions between(17 more words not shown)
- CMiddle-class European Americans(17 more words not shown)
- DBecause of the(18 more words not shown)
- ESome of Walker's(17 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This is a broad inference question. We have one dance's history and several audiences' responses to Walker. I'll look for a claim those details support, without turning this example into a general rule about all cultural exchange.
Working the answers
- A
One successful satiric dance doesn't show that satiric art forms are often the first to cross cultural divisions. We aren't given that broader pattern or comparison.
- B
“Mimetic vertigo” describes the particular layers of parody in the cakewalk's development. That one case doesn't establish that interactions between these cultures often follow the same pattern.
- C
We aren't told what other African American dances these admirers later enjoyed. Their response to the cakewalk alone cannot establish that later development.
- D
Separate-sex dancing is identified as a feature of African dance forms. No account is given of later American dances adopting it.
- ECorrect
Return to the last sentence: newly rich industrialists and financiers used the grand flourishes to celebrate “their newfound social rank.” Enjoying a dance as a way to display that new position is a way of reinforcing their social identity. The answer translates that specific audience's response into broader wording without inventing another group or event.
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