PrepTest 155, Section 3, Question 4
The following passage is adapted from a 2001(437 more words not shown)
The passage contains information sufficient(8 more words not shown)
- AHow many nonfiction(8 more words not shown)
- BDid directors of(10 more words not shown)
- CHow long were(10 more words not shown)
- DOut of what(9 more words not shown)
- EHow popular were(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Which question can we actually answer from the information given? We know something about the films' length and how they were programmed. We don't know the size of the entire industry, directors' other work, or the relative popularity of each genre. Check the requested fact, not just whether a choice uses familiar words.
Working the answers
- A
No total number of pre-1915 nonfiction films is supplied. Knowing there were enough for retrospectives doesn't tell us how many were made.
- B
Grouping films by director doesn't tell us whether those directors also worked in fiction. The text doesn't describe their full careers.
- CCorrect
The second paragraph tells us that most films in the early 1910s lasted “under fifteen minutes.” That supplies the duration the question asks about.
- D
Directors' cuts and vaudeville both appear in the final paragraph, but they aren't connected in this way. Vaudeville is offered as a possible source of mixed programming, not of restoring or releasing directors' cuts. Two nearby references don't establish a relationship between them.
- E
Travelogues and news films were included in mixed programs, but inclusion doesn't reveal audience preference. Viewers could have liked some parts of the program more than others. We cannot turn evidence that they were shown into an answer about how popular they were.
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