PrepTest 138, Section 1, Question 6
The corrido , a type of narrative folk(441 more words not shown)
The passage provides the most(8 more words not shown)
- A"El Corrido de(9 more words not shown)
- BMost surviving corridos(6 more words not shown)
- CAll complete corridos(5 more words not shown)
- DMost corrido variants(4 more words not shown)
- E"El Corrido de(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The closing verse gives us a useful inference. Its first and third lines are fixed conventions, while its second and fourth lines can change. So complete corridos share some wording without necessarily sharing an identical ending.
What we’re looking for
Keep some lines separate from the whole verse. That distinction matters more than simply noticing that an answer mentions the despedida.
Working the answers
- A
Corridos were sung at social gatherings, and Gregorio Cortez is called popular. We aren't given evidence that this particular song was rarely performed there. Neither its exact frequency nor that unusual rarity is established.
- B
Calling Kiansis the oldest corrido surviving in complete form doesn't tell us what proportion of other surviving corridos is incomplete. One oldest complete example cannot establish a claim about most surviving songs.
- CCorrect
The fixed first and third lines of the closing verse supply the shared lines. All is supported here by the description of those lines as a set convention; a strong word isn't automatically a reason to reject an answer.
- D
Shared lines don't make the entire despedida the same. The second and fourth lines vary with rhyme and the song's name or subject. This answer treats a partly fixed form as an identical complete verse.
- E
The account identifies what Kiansis records, not where its composer was from. A song's subject and the composer's origin are different facts.
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