PrepTest 141, Section 3, Question 12
One of the more striking developments in modern(447 more words not shown)
According to the passage, which(16 more words not shown)
- AThey were more(15 more words not shown)
- BThey represented the(13 more words not shown)
- CThey shared certain(11 more words not shown)
- DThey had already(7 more words not shown)
- EThey were influenced(6 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Locate the right dances and the right time. Starting in 1935, Dunham studied traditional Caribbean forms, with a special interest in their African origins. The answer can restate that connection more broadly; it needn't repeat the word African.
Working the answers
- A
Pacific-island cultures appear in the opening discussion of dance-isolation, but there is no ranking of how similar the studied Caribbean dances were to different cultures' forms. Shared use of a technique wouldn't establish most similar anyway.
- B
The text never dates the first use of dance-isolation outside Africa. It identifies several cultures where forms of the technique had long been important. That is not enough to award historical first place to these dances.
- C
Dunham later combined Caribbean techniques with modern styles and used them in new ballets. That doesn't establish that the dance forms she began studying already shared rhythmic features with North American ballets at that time.
- D
Already is the problem. We learn that Dunham later introduced techniques into North American performance, but aren't told that these Caribbean forms had influenced popular North American dances before her 1935 research began.
- ECorrect
Their African origins supply the non-Caribbean influence. Africa is outside the Caribbean, so the broader phrase accurately describes the stated connection. This is supported paraphrase, not a new claim about some unmentioned culture.
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