PrepTest 152, Section 3, Question 11

Working the answers

• A

  Berkeley supplies an example of the difficulty presented by musicals. Nothing makes his films unique in having performances that don't contribute to the narrative. An illustration of a wider pattern isn't automatically the only instance.

• B

  Techniques that don't call attention to themselves needn't be simplistic. Careful camera movement or editing could help tell the story precisely because the audience doesn't stop to admire the technique. The definition concerns purpose and effect, not the amount of technical sophistication.

• C

  Musicals, comedy, and melodrama are said to come from live theater. That doesn't establish the origin of every popular classical-era genre. Those examples cannot support the answer's all-genres claim.

• D
  Correct

  Repeated encounters with images provide a plausible way for viewers to acquire familiarity and come to accept them as conventions. That fits the ending's emphasis on acquired knowledge and eventual acceptance. Repeated exposure isn't stated word for word; it is the inference supported by that account of learning.

• E

  The discussion emphasizes musical interludes that depart from realistic storytelling. It doesn't establish that most 1930s musicals concentrated on telling realistic stories. We can't turn the presence of narrative scenes between the numbers into that broader claim about the films' emphasis.