PrepTest 134, Section 4, Question 27
During Dostoyevsky's time there were two significant and(437 more words not shown)
The passage suggests that Dostoyevsky's(16 more words not shown)
- Adraw a sharper(13 more words not shown)
- Bput clarity of(10 more words not shown)
- Cacknowledge the importance(9 more words not shown)
- Drecognize the full(8 more words not shown)
- Eexplain more fully(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What change would answer one of Dostoyevsky's objections? The radicals put a work's goal and clear purpose ahead of its formal qualities. He thinks that gets things backward: the writing itself must succeed. I'd expect him to respond more favorably if they took artistic merit seriously.
Working the answers
- A
A sharper separation of fantasy and reality would move away from his own view that they aren't distinct in principle.
- B
This repeats the priority he criticizes. The radicals already subordinate formal qualities to a good goal and clear purpose; emphasizing that priority wouldn't soften his objection.
- C
He regards reality as literature's crucial source. Eliminating concrete reality isn't his proposed remedy for the critics' narrow view of it.
- DCorrect
Recognizing artistic merit directly addresses his insistence that a work stand or fall on its quality. It would remove a substantial disagreement, even if the critics and Dostoyevsky still differed on other matters.
- E
The problem isn't simply that the critics haven't explained their demand clearly enough. He rejects the assumption behind depicting reality just as it is. More explanation alone doesn't resolve that disagreement.
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