PrepTest 145, Section 1, Question 14
Passage A During the 1990s, the study of(489 more words not shown)
Passage A(268 more words not shown)
Passage B(229 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(7 more words not shown)
- Athe decline of(5 more words not shown)
- Bthe role of(6 more words not shown)
- Cthe creation of(6 more words not shown)
- Dthe function of(3 more words not shown)
- Ethe "celebratory" goals(3 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Gender roles shape society. That's the shared topic we should already have in mind: A discusses this way of studying history, and B uses it to explain Roman politics and culture. The difficult reading has done most of the work for us. We don't need a more complicated connection just because the wording of the passages was dense.
Working the answers
- A
This is a concern in A: individual women have receded from historical attention. B doesn't discuss a decline in research. It supplies an analysis of Rome, not an account of what historians have stopped studying.
- BCorrect
A discusses gender as a framework for understanding social and political structures. B shows how women's domestic roles became part of Augustus's political project and its artistic expression. One discusses the approach; the other uses it.
- C
Ancient Rome belongs to B. A's discussion of domesticity is general, so a topic restricted to Rome cannot be central to both.
- D
A mentions research into masculinity as one form of gender analysis. B centers on women's roles as wives and mothers. Augustus's father title fits the family imagery, but the function of masculinity in history isn't the central topic of both accounts.
- E
A describes the celebratory aim of recovering lost ancestors. B isn't trying to honor forgotten women; it's explaining the political significance of their assigned roles.
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