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Text Structure and Purpose Test- 2 - Question 1

Many films from the early 1900s have been lost. These losses include several films by the first wave of Black women filmmakers. We know about these lost movies only from small pieces of evidence. For example, an advertisement for Jennie Louise Touissant Welcome's documentary Doing Their Bit still exists. There's a reference in a magazine to Tressie Souders's film A Woman's Error. And Maria P. Williams's The Flames of Wrath is mentioned in a letter and a newspaper article, and one image from the movie was discovered in the 1990s.

Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

Detailed Solution for Text Structure and Purpose Test- 2 - Question 1

Choice A. This isn't the overall structure. The text doesn't discuss any "differences" between the filmmakers.

Choice B. This is the best choice. The first three sentences describe the general situation: these early films have been lost, and we only know about them from small pieces of evidence. The rest of the text offers specific examples of the small pieces of evidence.

Choice C. This isn't the overall structure. The fact that we only know about these lost early films from small pieces of evidence isn't presented as a "complex problem"-that's too extreme. And the examples presented are not "unsuccessful attempts" to solve it. If anything, the examples represent a success, because we discovered that these films existed in the first place!

Choice D. This isn't the overall structure. There's no "debate" presented in the text, so there's no "side" for the text to support.

Text Structure and Purpose Test- 2 - Question 2

Michelene Pesantubbee, a historian and citizen of the Choctaw Nation, has identified a dilemma inherent to research on the status of women in her tribe during the 1600s and 1700s: the primary sources from that era, travel narratives and other accounts by male European colonizers, underestimate the degree of power conferred on Choctaw women by their traditional roles in political, civic, and ceremonial life. Pesantubbee argues that the Choctaw oral tradition and findings from archaeological sites in the tribe's homeland supplement the written record by providing crucial insights into those roles.

Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

Detailed Solution for Text Structure and Purpose Test- 2 - Question 2

Choice A. This isn't the overall structure. The text never says that research should avoid written primary sources, just that research should also use oral tradition and archeological sites as sources.

Choice B. This is the best choice. The text begins by stating a problem with research on the status of Choctaw women in the 1600s and 1700s: written primary sources underestimate the power they had in their traditional roles. Then it presents one historian's solution: looking to oral tradition and archeological findings for more insight into these roles.

Choice C. This isn't the overall structure. The text never mentions the advantages of using written primary sources.

Choice D. This isn't the overall structure. The text never says that the status of Choctaw women during the 1600s and 1700s is too challenging to research. And it doesn't mention any other topics to research instead.

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Text Structure and Purpose Test- 2 - Question 3

Works of moral philosophy, such as Plato's Republic or Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, are partly concerned with how to live a morally good life. But philosopher Jonathan Barnes argues that works that present a method of living such a life without also supplying a motive are inherently useful only to those already wishing to be morally good—those with no desire for moral goodness will not choose to follow their rules. However, some works of moral philosophy attempt to describe what constitutes a morally good life while also proposing reasons for living one.

Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

Detailed Solution for Text Structure and Purpose Test- 2 - Question 3

Choice A. This is too extreme. The text never mentions whether the two works are popular or not, and it never argues that these works don't serve their intended purpose of describing how to live a morally good life. Rather, the text claims that works of moral philosophy that don't include both how and why to be moral are not useful to readers who don't already want to be moral.

Choice B. This isn't the overall structure. The text never discusses the history of moral philosophy at all, and it doesn't propose any topic for further research.

Choice C. This isn't the overall structure. The text never discusses which of the two works is more widely read.

Choice D. This is the best choice. The text starts by stating what moral philosophy is concerned with and naming two examples of works in the field. Then it describes a shortcoming of some works in that field (they say how but not why), and finally it states that other works try to avoid that shortcoming (by including both how and why to live a morally good life).

Text Structure and Purpose Test- 2 - Question 4

Researchers have found a nearly 164,000-year-old molar from a member of the archaic human species known as Denisovans in a cave in Laos, suggesting that Denisovans lived in a wider range of environments than indicated by earlier evidence. Before the discovery, Denisovans were thought to have lived only at high altitudes in relatively cold climates in what are now Russia and China, but the discovery of the tooth in Laos suggests that they may have lived at low altitudes in relatively warm climates in Southeast Asia as well.

Which choice best states the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?

Detailed Solution for Text Structure and Purpose Test- 2 - Question 4

Choice A. The underlined portion doesn't do this. No term is defined here.

Choice B. The underlined portion doesn't do this. The text never tells us what the "goal" of the research was, just what its discovery was.

Choice C. This is the best choice. The text describes how a new discovery expands our understanding of Denisovans. The underlined portion describes what we used to believe about Denisovans, which helps the reader understand the significance of the discovery of the molar: it suggests that they lived in more places than we'd previously thought.

Choice D. The underlined portion doesn't do this. Instead, it explains what we used to believe about Denisovans before the discovery-it doesn't dismiss the new discovery as false.

Text Structure and Purpose Test- 2 - Question 5

The 1967 release of Harold Cruse's book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual isolated him from almost all other scholars and activists of the American Civil Rights Movement—though many of those thinkers disagreed with each other, he nonetheless found ways to disagree with them all. He thought that activists who believed that Black people such as himself should culturally assimilate were naïve. But he also sharply criticized Black nationalists such as Marcus Garvey who wanted to establish independent, self-contained Black economies and societies, even though Cruse himself identified as a Black nationalist.

Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?

Detailed Solution for Text Structure and Purpose Test- 2 - Question 5

Choice A. This conflicts with the text, which argues that Cruse did disagree with almost all other scholars of the Civil Rights Movement.

Choice B. This is a step too far. The text never says that Cruse's work caused controversy within the Black nationalist movement.

Choice C. The underlined sentence doesn't do this. It describes Cruse's criticisms-it never mentions what Cruse did want the movement to do instead.

Choice D. This is the best choice. The text as a whole claims that Cruse disagreed with virtually all other Civil Rights scholars and activists. The underlined sentence describes one way that Cruse both did and didn't fit in with those thinkers: he criticized Black nationalists, even though he identified as one.

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