PrepTest 126, Section 2, Question 18
With their recognition of Maxine Hong Kingston as(422 more words not shown)
The passage most clearly suggests(19 more words not shown)
- ASince they are(19 more words not shown)
- BThey should be(11 more words not shown)
- CThey will likely(10 more words not shown)
- DChinese American history(6 more words not shown)
- ETheir significance and(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Kingston sees herself as one performer in a continuing tradition, keeping and transmitting stories while also shaping them. I'd start with that understanding of her role, rather than treat every story as an isolated invention. The question remains broad, so we'll check which belief about the stories she actually expresses.
Working the answers
- A
She doesn't say English is inadequate. The final paragraph describes her success in giving English qualities associated with Chinese.
- B
We aren't given her proposed classification of the works or a rule for how critics should evaluate them. Their cultural origins don't establish that recommendation.
- CCorrect
She says stories can be frozen in print yet keep evolving beyond and out of the printed version (paragraph 3). A printed version therefore needn't end their development: they can be retold and changed afterward.
- D
She does connect storytelling with history, but she doesn't rank talk-story as the best way to chronicle Chinese American history.
- E
Saying a printed version isn't the story's final stage is very different from saying writing cannot capture any of its significance or beauty. Kingston never makes that sweeping claim.
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