PrepTest 157, Section 4, Question 5
In 1959, Hitsville, USA—the company better known as(437 more words not shown)
The author states which one(7 more words not shown)
- AHe relied on(11 more words not shown)
- BHe had worked(9 more words not shown)
- CHe devoted resources(7 more words not shown)
- DHe was educated(6 more words not shown)
- EHe founded Motown(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Keep Gordy's actual actions separate from the circumstances that helped his company. We are told that he committed resources to technical quality. We aren't given his education, his earlier career, or the precise route by which he recruited performers.
Working the answers
- A
The schools trained talented people, but the author doesn't say teachers helped Gordy recruit them. Picture the difference between a teacher educating a musician and personally referring that musician to a record company. Only the first relationship is described.
- B
His experience before founding Motown isn't provided. Business acumen doesn't establish a previous job in the music industry.
- CCorrect
The second paragraph says he believed the highest possible technical quality was essential and committed the funding and other means needed to achieve it (paragraph 2). This directly describes the investment the answer attributes to him.
- D
Many Motown artists and technicians trained in Detroit schools. That doesn't establish where Gordy himself attended school. Don't transfer their educational history to him.
- E
Electric instruments later contributed to the company's success. We aren't told that promoting them was a major reason Gordy founded the company. A development that benefits a business isn't automatically its founder's original purpose.
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