PrepTest 132, Section 1, Question 24
Recent criticism has sought to align Sarah Orne(431 more words not shown)
In saying that domestic fiction(27 more words not shown)
- ADomestic fiction was(10 more words not shown)
- BFiction was not(9 more words not shown)
- CDomestic fiction was(5 more words not shown)
- DFiction is constantly(1 more words not shown)
- EDomestic fiction promoted(8 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Read the rest of the sentence around “continuum.” It includes writings about piety and domestic instruction alongside fiction. The next sentence makes the relationship concrete: one book could perform all three jobs. We're talking about blurred categories of writing.
Working the answers
- A
A continuum might make you picture something stretching through time. Here, however, the neighboring categories are fiction, religious writing, and domestic instruction—not successive stages of a historical tradition.
- BCorrect
Fiction wasn't sharply separated from those other kinds of writing. A book could be a story, a parenting guide, and religious instruction all at once (paragraph 2). That directly explains the sense in which the categories formed a continuum.
- C
Nothing here addresses publication in installments. Sharing functions with other kinds of writing doesn't tell us how a book was published.
- D
This isn't a statement that fiction constantly changes. The sentence identifies categories connected by a shared purpose.
- E
Promoting domestic morality is a stated aim, but social cohesion isn't what continuum means in this sentence. The word describes the relationship among kinds of writing, not society's continuing togetherness.
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