PrepTest 135, Section 3, Question 2
In the 1980s there was a proliferation of(441 more words not shown)
According to the passage, which(20 more words not shown)
- Athe importance of(7 more words not shown)
- Bthose authors' stated(6 more words not shown)
- Cthose authors' preference(5 more words not shown)
- Dthe complexities of(6 more words not shown)
- Ethose authors' judgment(8 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Why choose these unusual structures? Because the writers are trying to express complex identities. They are dealing with ethnicity, gender, language, and multiple cultural affiliations. Mixing forms and voices helps them represent that experience instead of squeezing it into one conventional narrative.
What we’re looking for
This is a stated-reason question. The end of the third paragraph directly connects the structure with identity formation, so we can predict that connection and use the sentence to check the wording.
Working the answers
- A
Chronology is a convention some of these works depart from. Moraga arranges events around political development instead. The author doesn't identify a commitment to chronological order as the motivation for the structural choices at issue.
- B
They include forms such as essays and poems. Avoiding nonnarrative genres reverses the experiment we are being asked to explain.
- C
Political expression is present, not something the writers are described as avoiding. Moraga's political development even determines her book's organization.
- DCorrect
The writers use these forms to express how complicated the development of their identities is (paragraph 3). That's the explicit structure-to-purpose link we predicted. We don't need to infer a different motive from the mere fact that the books are unusual.
- E
No judgment that poetry should not be narrative is attributed to these writers. Including poetry doesn't establish that separate view about what poetry ought to do.
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