PrepTest 127, Section 4, Question 7
With his first published works in the 1950s,(432 more words not shown)
The primary purpose of the(3 more words not shown)
- Aillustrate the wide(6 more words not shown)
- Bexplain the significance(16 more words not shown)
- Cprovide an account(15 more words not shown)
- Ddistinguish accurately between(10 more words not shown)
- Esummarize the disagreement(8 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Our main point gives us the purpose too: the author wants us to evaluate Tutuola within the folktale tradition rather than as a novelist. Explaining the tradition and showing how his work fits it serve that argument. We want the purpose of the whole discussion, not just one step along the way.
Working the answers
- A
We aren't surveying the range of his works. The examples establish how his writing fits the folktale tradition.
- B
This makes the goal a defense of folktales generally. The argument focuses on the proper evaluation of Tutuola's work.
- CCorrect
This puts our prediction in more abstract terms. The account of his work shows why the appropriate criteria come from folktale telling. That is what lets us judge his use of familiar stories and inventive changes fairly.
- D
Distinguishing the genres helps the argument, but it isn't the final goal. The author uses that distinction to explain how we should evaluate this particular writer.
- E
The opening reports differing critical reactions, but the author goes on to challenge the framework behind them. This is an argument about how to judge Tutuola, not merely a summary of what critics have said.
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