PrepTest 133, Section 4, Question 11
The literary development of Kate Chopin, author of(448 more words not shown)
As it is used by(24 more words not shown)
- Adomestic(1 more words not shown)
- Bregional(1 more words not shown)
- Cartistic(1 more words not shown)
- Deducational(1 more words not shown)
- Epolitical(1 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This is the culture described as disappearing while women entered education, professions, and politics. The later examples make it concrete: gardens, houses, nurturing, and household objects. We're looking for the older sphere of experience, not the new opportunities replacing its central place.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Those examples all concern domestic life. The earlier emphasis on courtship and marriage also fits that home-centered setting.
- B
The local colorists wrote about regions, but the phrase here identifies women's domestic culture, not differences among regional customs. Those are different aspects of the discussion.
- C
The fiction represents and sometimes idealizes the culture. Artistic production isn't what the phrase primarily refers to.
- D
Higher education is one of the new worlds women were entering as this older culture dissolved. It isn't the old culture being described.
- E
Political activity belongs to that same list of expanding opportunities. It doesn't match the domestic world represented by the garden, house, and household objects.
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