PrepTest 132, Section 3, Question 2
The work of South African writer Ezekiel Mphahlele(453 more words not shown)
The passage states that Mphahlele(6 more words not shown)
- AWriting should provide(6 more words not shown)
- BWriting should have(7 more words not shown)
- CWriting is most(15 more words not shown)
- DGood writing is(5 more words not shown)
- EFiction and autobiography(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What does Mphahlele say writing is for? We remember his emphasis on social messages, but this question asks for a stated belief. We can check the final paragraph rather than turn that general attitude into a more specific demand he never makes.
Working the answers
- A
Critics complain that he provides no road map for social change. That complaint isn't his statement that writers should supply such a guide. Conveying a vision and explaining how to achieve it are different things.
- BCorrect
The final paragraph describes writing as “the transmission of ideas.” That directly supports this statement of its goal.
- C
He draws on personal experience and shapes it for his purpose. He doesn't say minimizing real people and events is the most effective approach.
- D
Having both factual and fictional elements doesn't establish that good writing should contain more of the former than the latter.
- E
This imposes a clean distinction that his account resists. He says no novelist can write complete fiction or absolute fact; the mixture isn't presented as a failure to compose the work properly.
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