PrepTest 128, Section 1, Question 15
As the twentieth century draws to a close,(461 more words not shown)
The passage provides information to(7 more words not shown)
- AWhat kinds of(10 more words not shown)
- BWhy did nineteenth-century(12 more words not shown)
- CIn what ways(10 more words not shown)
- DWhy was Queen(9 more words not shown)
- EWhat is one(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Four of these questions can be answered from what we've read. One asks for a detail we weren't given. Work through the choices by finding an actual answer in the text; the one we can't answer is our selection.
Working the answers
- A
The second sentence answers this: current worries and priorities (paragraph 1) influence the national identities people construct from the past.
- B
They wanted to support an image of European cultural dominance. Acknowledging African and Eastern contributions to Greek civilization would complicate that image.
- CCorrect
We learn that African cultures influenced ancient Greece, but we aren't told what those influences were. No particular practice, belief, or institution is identified as an African contribution. Knowing the source of an influence doesn't tell us its content.
- D
The second paragraph explains the political purpose: giving European authority the appearance of a long history could make it seem more legitimate. Victoria's declaration and celebrations illustrate that effort.
- E
Revolutionary poets give their followers an idealized past they can admire and revive. That's one reason for their way of speaking and writing, supplied in the third paragraph.
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