PrepTest 135, Section 3, Question 5
In the 1980s there was a proliferation of(441 more words not shown)
Based on the passage, the(20 more words not shown)
- Adisappointment in scholars'(16 more words not shown)
- Bexpectation that readers(16 more words not shown)
- Csurprise that academic(11 more words not shown)
- Dconfidence that it(15 more words not shown)
- Einsistence that it(15 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The author treats Getting Home Alive as a purposeful innovation. The mother and daughter's pieces aren't neatly separated; they interact, and the author explains how that structure fits the writers' complex identities.
What we’re looking for
We can predict appreciation for the design, with a qualification: a reader might initially mistake the unusual arrangement for disorder. An attitude answer needs to fit that actual assessment, not invent a story about how scholars have received the book.
Working the answers
- A
No sequel is identified, and the author doesn't criticize scholars for failing to recognize one. Mentioning the authors and literary genres doesn't supply the relationship this answer claims.
- BCorrect
The organization “may seem fragmentary and confusing,” but the author calls it “fully intentional and carefully designed.” That contrast anticipates readers failing to see the purpose immediately, then explains why the arrangement makes sense. B captures both the possible reaction and the author's correction of it.
- C
We aren't told that academic commentators treated the book as a historical document, much less that the author is surprised by their response.
- D
The book includes personal history, but the author doesn't predict widespread scholarly recognition of it as history and literary criticism. Approval of a work doesn't establish confidence about its future reception.
- E
The author argues that these writers expand the genre. That isn't a claim about their having broadened other critics' understanding of what qualifies as autobiography. E shifts from the author's assessment of the writing to an unestablished effect on critics.
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