PrepTest 139, Section 2, Question 19
Most scholars of Mexican American history mark César(461 more words not shown)
The information in the passage(13 more words not shown)
- AIts efforts to(14 more words not shown)
- BIt included among(18 more words not shown)
- CIt did not(18 more words not shown)
- DAlthough its first(19 more words not shown)
- EIts work drew(16 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The chronology helps here. The union had gained international recognition through the grape boycott by 1965. The Teatro Campesino's development came afterward in the account: Valdez approached Chávez that year and gathered the striking workers in the fall.
What we’re looking for
That makes it hard to credit the theater with a major role in the union's earliest efforts to gain recognition. A group cannot drive an earlier effort before it has formed. Keep that limited timing inference separate from guesses about how audiences later received its work.
Working the answers
- A
We aren't told that farm owners accepted the theater's organizing efforts. The union's boycott and the theater are related, but an account of one doesn't establish owners' responses to the other.
- B
Valdez's former membership in the Mime Troupe is stated. Similar membership by other Teatro participants is not. His background cannot stand in for everyone else's.
- CCorrect
The opening places the union's international recognition before the account of the Teatro's formation. That supports the limited claim about the earliest efforts; it doesn't deny that the theater later contributed to organizing.
- D
Neither the language of the first performances nor a later change to English is described. An audience's background is not enough to establish this performance history.
- E
We hear about historians' accounts of the Teatro, not favorable reviews from critics in two countries. Possible praise is not evidence that it occurred.
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