PrepTest 128, Section 4, Question 11
In filmmaker Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry , the(458 more words not shown)
The author mentions the title(5 more words not shown)
- Acounter the prevailing(5 more words not shown)
- Bexemplify a primary(4 more words not shown)
- Cserve as a(10 more words not shown)
- Ddemonstrate that artistic(8 more words not shown)
- Eillustrate Allen's obvious(7 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Why introduce Zelig right after the unhappy artists? He is thoroughly inartistic and gets a happy ending. “On the other hand” makes the job of the example clear: contrast his fate with theirs.
Working the answers
- A
We aren't given a prevailing critical view to overturn. The comparison is between characters and their outcomes.
- B
The recurring concern is artists' self-absorption and its costs. Zelig isn't another artistic character illustrating that concern; his different outcome helps make the pattern stand out.
- CCorrect
The artistic characters end up desolate and alone; Zelig dies relatively happily. His ending supplies the contrast that strengthens the larger point about Allen's treatment of artists.
- D
Zelig is specifically described as inartistic. This example doesn't establish that artistic characters have always been important.
- E
A happy ending may suggest favorable treatment, so this is tempting. But the question asks why Zelig is mentioned here. E considers that treatment in isolation and drops the comparison with the artists. C captures the function signaled by “On the other hand.”
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