PrepTest 128, Section 1, Question 18
As the twentieth century draws to a close,(461 more words not shown)
The "purveyors of nationalist dogma"(20 more words not shown)
- AColonized nations should(7 more words not shown)
- BImperial cultures should(6 more words not shown)
- CThe cultural traditions(9 more words not shown)
- DA country's cultural(8 more words not shown)
- ENational histories are(8 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Whose view are we answering for? The author says that cultural experiences cross national boundaries, although these nationalists deny that crossing (paragraph 4). So we want the outlook that resists outside influence, not the author's own recognition that cultures are mixed.
Working the answers
- A
Nothing tells us that these nationalists oppose a colonized nation's attempt to recover its historical culture. That isn't the contrast in the sentence.
- B
Incorporating another culture's traditions moves toward cultural mixture, not the separation implied by their position.
- CCorrect
Calling outside influence a source of contamination fits an outlook that prizes a nation's supposedly pure, self-contained traditions. That is the view the author challenges by emphasizing cultural overlap.
- D
This is the author's side of the contrast. The nationalists are identified as making claims against it.
- E
The author explains how national histories serve aspirations to power. That doesn't establish that the people promoting those histories would acknowledge this account of what they're doing. We can't assign the author's diagnosis to the nationalists themselves.
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