PrepTest 126, Section 2, Question 14
With their recognition of Maxine Hong Kingston as(422 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(9 more words not shown)
- ADespite some critics'(21 more words not shown)
- BAnalysis of Kingston's(28 more words not shown)
- CAn understanding of(27 more words not shown)
- DThroughout her writings(22 more words not shown)
- EThe writings of(31 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We've already predicted that Kingston's writing grows out of Chinese talk-story, a connection some critics missed because they looked only at written predecessors. We're looking for some version of that relationship. A detail about how she remembers or writes stories can support it without being the whole point.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
This captures both the connection and the misunderstanding: Kingston has significant predecessors, but we find them in an oral tradition rather than only in earlier written works.
- B
This picks up her view of writers as performers and of stories developing after publication. That helps explain her relationship to talk-story, but it narrows the whole discussion to one part of the third paragraph.
- C
We discuss Kingston, not Chinese American writers in general or critics of ethnic literatures throughout the United States. C turns this particular correction into a broader conclusion we haven't established.
- D
Her techniques are evidence of her connection to talk-story. D concentrates on those techniques, especially Chinese speech in English writing, without capturing the larger point about the literary ancestry the critics overlooked.
- E
We learn that talk-story is old and that Kingston draws on it. We don't learn that her books caused a revival of interest in it.
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