PrepTest 143, Section 2, Question 5
Having spent several decades trying to eliminate the(433 more words not shown)
The passage provides information that(11 more words not shown)
- AWhy do the(8 more words not shown)
- BWhat is the(8 more words not shown)
- CWhich indigenous cultures(7 more words not shown)
- DWhich Western technologies(7 more words not shown)
- EWhat factors have(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This question is open-ended: which question do we have enough information to answer? We can't predict a single detail in advance. Instead, each choice needs an actual answer from what we read. Recognizing a topic is not enough; a question about its origin, cause, or history may go beyond the information supplied.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The Kayapo record transactions with Brazilian government representatives to provide documentation of their dealings that has legal force (paragraph 4). In this primarily oral society, video supplies a lasting record of those dealings. That gives us the practical purpose of making the legal records; we do not need to speculate about a particular dispute or accuse anyone of dishonesty.
- B
The noble savage idea is mentioned as something Weiner's opponents think he is nostalgic for. Its origin is never explained.
- C
We learn about people who use video, especially the Kayapo. We are not given a list of cultures that have yet to adopt it.
- D
Ginsburg refers broadly to Western objects entering cultural circulation since the fifteenth century. She does not identify which technologies entered during that century. A time reference is not the historical list this question requests.
- E
Inexpensive equipment helps explain why indigenous people can now make recordings. We are not told what made the equipment inexpensive. Possible answers about competition or improved production would come from outside knowledge, not this account.
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