PrepTest 153, Section 1, Question 26
Passage A is adapted from a book by(494 more words not shown)
Passage A(300 more words not shown)
Passage B(202 more words not shown)
Passage B suggests that which(10 more words not shown)
- AThe society's sense(8 more words not shown)
- BPublic shouting and(9 more words not shown)
- CPeople who served(12 more words not shown)
- DPowerful nobles relied(8 more words not shown)
- EOnly members of(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This question stays within fifteenth-century Wolof society. We know the society had a strict hierarchy, that griots occupied its lowest rank, and that public vocal performance was their specialized role. Check the answers against those details without importing A's account of cultural disruption through slavery.
Working the answers
- A
B doesn't describe communal values unraveling. Griots understand and invoke those values to influence public opinion. The account of a destroyed social fabric belongs to A's explanation of blues.
- BCorrect
B says raising one's voice in public was inappropriate for socially prominent people, while low-caste griots shouted and sang before crowds. That contrast supports the restriction of these loud public performances to lower social classes.
- C
The guardians of norms and culture described here are griots, who have the lowest caste rank. Their cultural function does not supply support for a general claim that such guardians enjoyed high status.
- D
We learn one way patrons gained prestige: griots publicly praised their history and conduct. Nothing establishes numerous methods by which nobles preserved their status. One described mechanism doesn't give us an inventory of others.
- E
Griots themselves had to be sensitive to community values and correct conduct. They belonged to the lowest caste. So awareness of those standards was plainly not limited to the highest class.
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