PrepTest 137, Section 1, Question 10
Taking the explication of experience as its object(440 more words not shown)
It can be inferred that(19 more words not shown)
- AThe !Kung are(4 more words not shown)
- BConsidering the !Kung(4 more words not shown)
- CPeople who live(6 more words not shown)
- DA large percentage(7 more words not shown)
- EThe experience of(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The second paragraph corrects a comforting Western image: a simple, seminomadic life must be free of many of our troubles. Nisa's losses and childhood conflicts challenge that image. The received attitude is the rosy assumption being corrected, not the difficult fact that corrects it.
What we’re looking for
That distinction lets us use the whole paragraph instead of guessing from the isolated phrase “received attitudes.”
Working the answers
- A
The author actually grants the !Kung's charm. Charm helps explain their appeal to Western observers, but the correction concerns the mistaken picture of their lives as uncomplicated and idyllic.
- B
This describes the observers' reaction. The mistake is the further leap from being happy to think about the !Kung to assuming that the !Kung themselves have especially happy, untroubled lives.
- CCorrect
Having few serious problems is exactly the reassuring picture that Nisa's experience undermines. The death of her children and husband and the conflicts she remembers show why seminomadic life cannot simply be equated with an easy life.
- D
High childhood mortality is part of the reality that disturbs the pleasant image. It is evidence against the received attitude, not an example of that attitude.
- E
Shared concerns among women belong to the next paragraph's positive account of the book's value. They aren't the romanticized belief about simple societies that the second paragraph qualifies.
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