PrepTest 149, Section 1, Question 2
Rose: Let's not see the movie Winter Fields.(45 more words not shown)
Chester's response suggests that he(10 more words not shown)
- Asee the(1 more words not shown)
- Bcaught a(1 more words not shown)
- Clocal(1 more words not shown)
- Dworst(1 more words not shown)
- Ein(1 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
Worst review of the movie, or worst-written review?
What we’re looking for
Rose appears to mean that the review was extremely negative about Winter Fields. That would explain not wanting to see it. Chester instead comments on the newspaper's poor writing. He thinks Rose is objecting to how the review was written, rather than what it said about the film. For the expression he misinterpreted, that points us to “worst review.”
Working the answers
- A
Nothing suggests confusion about what it means to see the movie. Chester questions Rose's reason for avoiding it, not the activity she proposes avoiding.
- B
“Caught a review” tells us Rose encountered or read one. Chester doesn't appear confused about how she came across it. His response concerns its writing quality.
- C
Both speakers refer to the newspaper. Chester's comment about the quality of its writing gives us no reason to think he misunderstood which publication Rose meant.
- DCorrect
Rose uses “worst review” to describe how negatively the movie was reviewed. Chester hears it as a judgment that the review itself was poorly written. That's why he treats bad writing as irrelevant to whether they should see the movie: he's responding to a different complaint from the one Rose intended.
- E
The time comparison isn't the source of confusion. Whether Rose meant one year or several years, Chester's response would still miss the distinction between criticism of the movie and criticism of the review's writing.
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