PrepTest 129, Section 4, Question 14
The following passages are adapted from critical essays(486 more words not shown)
Passage A(229 more words not shown)
Passage B(250 more words not shown)
Passage B indicates which one(3 more words not shown)
- ANarratologists point to(8 more words not shown)
- BCather disliked the(9 more words not shown)
- CCather regarded at(15 more words not shown)
- DCather's unusual treatment(12 more words not shown)
- ECather's work was(7 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This is a broad support question about B alone. We'll check what it actually establishes, keeping the author's assessment separate from Cather's own statement and from the views of the narratologists or hostile critics.
Working the answers
- A
B's author thinks narratology suits Cather. We aren't told that the narratologists themselves point to her works as their prime examples. That assigns the author's judgment to a different group.
- B
B doesn't identify earlier novelists whose work Cather disliked.
- CCorrect
Cather writes that she favors describing Death Comes for the Archbishop as a narrative (Passage B, paragraph 1). That preference supports the modest claim that she didn't regard at least this work as fitting straightforwardly into the novel category. We don't need a claim about all her books.
- D
B doesn't discuss Turgenev or Tolstoy. Even A's discussion of the Russian writers doesn't establish this specific influence on her handling of time.
- E
We hear from her severest critics, not a representative count of all contemporary critics. Their complaints don't establish that more than half regarded her work as flawed.
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