PrepTest 145, Section 1, Question 6
The Federal Theater Project (FTP) was established in(443 more words not shown)
The passage provides the most(16 more words not shown)
- Abelieved that playwrights(7 more words not shown)
- Bopposed the idea(10 more words not shown)
- Cfavored folk dramas(5 more words not shown)
- Dfavored urban realistic(7 more words not shown)
- Eadvocated adapting dramas(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The Swing Mikado was an adaptation of a white classic performed by African American actors. That directly connects it to one of the approaches producers advocated earlier.
What we’re looking for
It also challenged audiences to think about racial roles. That tells us the production had something to say, but we should not let its social message erase the more specific description of what it adapted.
Working the answers
- A
A work that challenges people to think about racial roles does not support a policy of avoiding controversial themes. Nothing attributes that policy to these producers.
- B
The production invites reflection about roles on and beyond the stage. That does not fit opposition to instruction alongside entertainment. Its message is part of what the author emphasizes.
- C
We are not told that this was a folk drama about rural roots. A concern with racial roles does not turn a musical adaptation into that particular kind of play.
- D
Addressing a contemporary issue does not establish that a work is an urban realistic drama. The text describes an ironic adaptation of a classic, not the realistic genre named here.
- ECorrect
The production casts African American performers in a version of a white playwright's classic that uses irony (paragraph 2). That is direct evidence for adapting work by white playwrights for an African American troupe. It matches the specific approach described earlier, without requiring us to infer a genre from the show's message.
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