PrepTest 133, Section 4, Question 9
The literary development of Kate Chopin, author of(448 more words not shown)
With which one of the(14 more words not shown)
- ATheir idealization of(10 more words not shown)
- BTheir tendency to(11 more words not shown)
- CTheir chief contribution(12 more words not shown)
- DTheir focus on(13 more words not shown)
- ETheir conventions prevented(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Recall Chopin's actual differences with the local colorists. She wrote about loneliness, isolation, and frustration, and she didn't share their growing nostalgia for the past. Those points give us a basis for her likely view; we shouldn't invent a criticism of every part of their work.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The gardens, houses, and domestic objects were the images the local colorists invested with mythic significance. Chopin's refusal to share their nostalgia supports disagreement with that idealization. This connects the stated difference in attitude to the specific practice described earlier.
- B
Their detached observation is real, but we're not told it made their fiction emotionally ineffective. Chopin herself used their conventions to tell shocking stories. Detachment doesn't automatically remove a story's emotional force.
- C
No claim identifies their chief contribution as inspiring the New Women. Chopin isn't given that opinion.
- D
They did focus on regional life, but they were also attracted to the new worlds opening to women. Regional subject matter didn't prevent that engagement.
- E
Chopin used their conventions to portray extreme psychological states in an uninflected manner. That example works against the claim that the conventions prevented such a portrayal.
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