PrepTest 134, Section 4, Question 22
During Dostoyevsky's time there were two significant and(437 more words not shown)
According to the passage, Dostoyevsky(13 more words not shown)
- Areality is not(6 more words not shown)
- Brealism is unequal(7 more words not shown)
- Cart should be(6 more words not shown)
- Drealism does not(17 more words not shown)
- Ereality is not(6 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This question focuses on his disagreement about realism. We should return to the second paragraph, where the apparently strange claim about fantasy and reality gets an explanation. My initial thought is that his reality includes more than the radicals' concrete world; let's find the specific reason.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Reality depends on the individual experiencing it (paragraph 2). That's why he rejects the demand to reproduce it simply as it is: different people can experience reality differently. A states that dependence on individual experience.
- B
He doesn't say realism is incapable of representing political views. His objection here concerns what reality means, not a limit on political communication.
- C
This resembles the first group's position, which places art above everyday life. Dostoyevsky still treats reality as essential to literature.
- D
He questions the demand that literature produce social benefits. He doesn't establish that realism cannot expose injustice or help change society.
- E
This contradicts the opening: he consistently regarded reality as essential source material for literature (paragraph 1). His broader view of reality doesn't remove it as the source.
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