PrepTest 157, Section 4, Question 6
In 1959, Hitsville, USA—the company better known as(437 more words not shown)
The author most clearly intends(22 more words not shown)
- Athe willingness of(8 more words not shown)
- BDetroit residents' ready(7 more words not shown)
- Ca Detroit instrument(5 more words not shown)
- DDetroit residents' disenchantment(6 more words not shown)
- EDetroit's well-established tradition(5 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What artistic situation made Detroit favorable for Motown? The opening points to rich local musical talent, and the third paragraph explains where much of that talent came from: a strong public school music program. The later detail fills in the earlier broad phrase.
Working the answers
- A
Financial backing could help a company, but no willingness by Detroit financiers to fund artistic ventures is described. This substitutes an economic claim for the musical environment we are given.
- BCorrect
Access to school music education produced trained performers and technicians and exposed students to different styles. That is a concrete part of the artistic setting Motown benefited from. The schools help explain why a deep pool of talent was available locally.
- C
Electric instruments matter, but we aren't told that a Detroit manufacturer made them. The location of Motown doesn't establish the location of instrument production.
- D
We aren't told Detroit residents disliked prevailing popular music. Interest in Motown's distinctive sound doesn't prove dissatisfaction with everything that came before it.
- E
Motown's independence mattered, but one independent company doesn't establish a longstanding local tradition of supporting independent recording businesses. The tradition the author describes concerns musical education.
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