PrepTest 134, Section 4, Question 9
Mexican Americans share with speakers of Spanish throughout(416 more words not shown)
The passage provides information that(10 more words not shown)
- AIn what other(13 more words not shown)
- BAre any proverbs(13 more words not shown)
- CWhat kinds of(15 more words not shown)
- DIn what other(17 more words not shown)
- EIs the use(17 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This asks which question the information lets us answer. We know something about the proverbs' background, their educational use, and their role in maintaining heritage. Check the particular information each question asks for; a plausible guess isn't an answer supplied by the text.
Working the answers
- A
We aren't given origins outside Europe. Guessing Mexico or another part of Latin America would add a location the author doesn't identify.
- B
Exact equivalents in English don't tell us that an English proverb was derived from a Mexican American one. Similar content doesn't establish the direction of borrowing.
- C
The author doesn't identify the messages most commonly taught through English-language proverbs.
- D
No other ethnic group is identified as using proverbs to maintain its traditional ties. The specific account here concerns Mexican Americans.
- ECorrect
The second paragraph says the instructional function seems considerably more important in Mexican culture than in Anglophone cultures (paragraph 2). That supplies the comparison being asked for. We don't need a numerical survey to recognize the stated difference.
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