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Directions: Refer to the following passage. After reading the passage, read and respond to each question selecting the best answer choice for each one.
I enjoyed A Dream of Light & Shadow: Portraits of Latin American Women Writers for the same reasons that, as a child, I avidly consumed women’s biographies: the fascination with how the biographical details of another female’s life are represented and interpreted.
A Dream offers a rich read, varied in both the lives and texts of the women portrayed, and the perspectives and styles of the sixteen essayists. Yet, as an adult, I have come to demand of any really “great” book a self-consciousness about the tenuous nature of representations of reality, a critical contextualization of florid detail, and a self-awareness of the role of ideology in our lives. In these critical senses, A Dream is inadequate.
Q. The author of the passage suggests that A Dream falls short in which of the following respects?
  • a)
    It does not appear to recognize that representations of reality can be unreliable.
  • b)
    It seems to focus on stylistic variety at the expense of accuracy of detail.
  • c)
    It offers a wealth of detail without sufficient critical examination of that detail.
Correct answer is option 'A,C'. Can you explain this answer?
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Choices A and C are correct. We know from the final sentence that the collection falls short of several criteria established by the author.
Choice A is correct: the book does not demonstrate sufficient awareness of the “tenuous nature of representations of reality.”
Choice B is incorrect: there is no mention in the passage of any concern on the part of the author about the accuracy of detail.
Choice C is correct: the book does not offer an adequate “critical contextualization of florid detail.”
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Directions: Refer to the following passage. After reading the passage...
Choices A and C are correct. We know from the final sentence that the collection falls short of several criteria established by the author.
Choice A is correct: the book does not demonstrate sufficient awareness of the “tenuous nature of representations of reality.”
Choice B is incorrect: there is no mention in the passage of any concern on the part of the author about the accuracy of detail.
Choice C is correct: the book does not offer an adequate “critical contextualization of florid detail.”
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