PrepTest 135, Section 3, Question 4
In the 1980s there was a proliferation of(441 more words not shown)
The passage indicates which one(11 more words not shown)
- AEach contains some(16 more words not shown)
- BEach quotes from(8 more words not shown)
- CEach contains analysis(14 more words not shown)
- DEach contains writings(8 more words not shown)
- EEach includes explanations(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The shared feature is the mixture of literary forms. The second paragraph describes these works as combining genres, and the examples show how that general description works in particular collections.
What we’re looking for
Notice that every answer says each. That asks for something supported about all three works. Strong wording isn't automatically wrong; we need to check whether the text gives a general description or only a detail about one example.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The second paragraph attributes a “generically mixed structure” to these works, combining forms such as essays, stories, poems, and journal entries. Each therefore includes material associated with another genre. We don't need every book to contain every listed form for this answer to be true.
- B
Journal entries appear in the list of forms, but that doesn't mean each collection quotes previously unpublished private documents. This adds both a claim about all three books and a claim about the documents' publication history.
- C
Their cultural identities shape the books. That doesn't establish that every book contains an analysis of how its own content was shaped by its author's background. The author explaining that relationship is different from every writer explicitly analyzing it within her book.
- D
Getting Home Alive has two authors. That feature of one collection cannot be assigned to all three.
- E
Moraga explains her arrangement in an introduction. We aren't told that each collection includes an explanation of its author's writing methods. Again, a particular example doesn't support each.
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