PrepTest 137, Section 1, Question 14
Taking the explication of experience as its object(440 more words not shown)
It can be inferred that(23 more words not shown)
- Athe cultural values(7 more words not shown)
- Bthe amorphous nature(8 more words not shown)
- Cthe less-than-idyllic nature(6 more words not shown)
- Dan autobiographical account(5 more words not shown)
- Ea distinction between(3 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Nisa describes living and eating in one location before moving to another (paragraph 4). The surrounding discussion contrasts an ordinary account of lived events with a recognizable story. Her statement supplies very little shape: a place, some eating, a move. Shostak and Nisa's dialogue helps turn that material into a narrative.
What we’re looking for
So the quotation illustrates how unshaped an account of a life can be. It doesn't, by itself, establish whether that life was pleasant or miserable.
Working the answers
- A
No particular cultural value is identified in these words. A general report that people lived, ate and moved isn't a statement about what their culture prizes.
- BCorrect
Amorphous means lacking a definite shape. That fits the contrast between this featureless account and the shaped story that emerges through collaboration. The events become a recognizable narrative through the dialogue; they don't arrive already arranged as one.
- C
Eating things could mean enjoying an excellent meal or struggling to find enough food. Living in a place could mean comfort or hardship. The words are too broad to establish the less-than-idyllic claim. Earlier details do reveal hardship, but this quotation is used to illustrate a different point.
- D
This reverses the local contrast. The quotation exemplifies material that has not yet been given a recognizable story's shape, not the completed narrative that results.
- E
The speaker is Nisa, but the author isn't using these words to draw a boundary between ethnographer and subject. The point is what their collaboration does with an initially unshaped account.
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