PrepTest 150, Section 4, Question 2
This passage was adapted from an article published(462 more words not shown)
By stating that many people(27 more words not shown)
- Arevived a discredited(3 more words not shown)
- Bmerely recombined other(2 more words not shown)
- Coveremphasized strict adherence(2 more words not shown)
- Dreinvented and reinterpreted(2 more words not shown)
- Eseized on a(5 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Read “retro ideology” with the executive's explanation: it is “not really of the moment” and resembles a museum's retrospective focus (paragraph 3). Predict too much attachment to the past. This question asks what those people believe about Marsalis, so keep their criticism separate from the author's later defense of his innovative compositions.
Working the answers
- A
Old does not mean discredited. The criticism is that Marsalis is too bound to tradition, not that the ideas he promotes have already been disproved or rejected as worthless.
- B
Recombining ideas is not what the executive's backward-looking comparison describes. The author later mentions recombination as part of the defense of Marsalis's creative use of tradition.
- CCorrect
Strict adherence to tradition captures the museum comparison and the preceding criticism of “unbending classicism.” The complaint is that his focus on the past leaves too little room for jazz to develop.
- D
Reinventing and reinterpreting traditional forms describes the author's response to that complaint. It is not what the people making the retro-ideology accusation mean.
- E
There is no claim that these ideas are inauthentic. They could be authentic traditions and still, in the critics' view, be followed too rigidly. E replaces the stated criticism with a different one.
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