PrepTest 132, Section 3, Question 7
The work of South African writer Ezekiel Mphahlele(453 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(10 more words not shown)
- AMphahlele's stance as(20 more words not shown)
- BThe social vision(21 more words not shown)
- CCritics are concerned(27 more words not shown)
- DIf Mphahlele were(21 more words not shown)
- EFor a work(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This is a broad inference question, so there isn't one precise claim to predict. We know why some critics object to the genre mixing, how Mphahlele defends his purpose, and why others want a road map for his vision. We'll check what those details support.
Working the answers
- A
We are told that he is a humanist and integrationist, not how that outlook originated. Deriving it from a sharp fact-fiction distinction also clashes with his resistance to that distinction.
- B
This is tempting because the author says critics miss his social purpose by focusing on labels. But that doesn't establish that social vision is irrelevant to those critics. The account even describes criticism directed at his vision and its lack of a road map; we shouldn't convert misplaced emphasis into total indifference.
- C
The criticism of the two books does connect classification with negative judgments of the work. This answer denies that use of categories and substitutes an interest in discovering literary trends that isn't described.
- DCorrect
Critics “balk at this vision” because he gives no road map for achieving it. Supplying that direction could address their objection and make the vision acceptable to more of them. The answer says might, not that every critic would be convinced.
- E
The account reports objections to this novel's autobiographical features. It doesn't establish a universal definition prohibiting every autobiographical element in a novel.
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