PrepTest 132, Section 1, Question 27
Recent criticism has sought to align Sarah Orne(431 more words not shown)
The differing conceptions of fiction(23 more words not shown)
- AWhy was Jewett(20 more words not shown)
- BWhy did both(14 more words not shown)
- CWhy was Jewett(16 more words not shown)
- DWhy did both(12 more words not shown)
- EWhy was Jewett(19 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Start with the differing conceptions themselves. The domestic novelists use fiction to teach religious and household values. Jewett treats the work as valuable in itself. My first thought is that these views answer a question about fiction's purpose, but we'll need to see exactly what the choices ask us to explain.
Working the answers
- A
Unwilling adds resistance or refusal. Not using children and religion prominently doesn't establish that Jewett was opposed to doing so. Her artistic aim explains the absence without requiring that attitude.
- B
The differing conceptions don't explain a shared preference for rural settings. We aren't given the claimed comparison between rural and urban concerns or a reason for it.
- CCorrect
This makes the connection more precise than our initial thought about purpose. If a book aims to instruct readers about child rearing and Christian duty, those subjects naturally constrain its content. Jewett doesn't share that instructional aim, so she isn't under the same pressure to feature children and religion. Her conception explains her freedom from the constraint.
- D
Their shared focus on women is acknowledged, but the differing conceptions aren't offered as an explanation of why both chose that subject.
- E
Unable would mean she lacked the capacity to include those themes. The contrast explains why she didn't have to include them, not why she couldn't.
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