PT133.S4.P2.Q9

PrepTest 133 - Section 4 - Passage 2 - Question 9

Passage Style

Single position

Spotlight

With which one of the factors discussed in this passage does Chopin’s attitude toward the local colorists align?

Question Type

  • Implied
  • Other’s perspective

Chopin’s attitude toward the local colorists is discussed in P3 and at the start of P4. She preferred to focus on different subject matter than what the local colorists were interested in and didn’t share their nostalgic views, but she borrowed their narrative technique of reporting events in an impersonal way.

Options

a. Their idealization of traditional women's culture

  • Strongly supported. As the local colorists became focused on the disappearance of “women’s culture,” they wrote in an idealized way about things associated with that culture. Chopin didn’t share this outlook and started looking for inspiration elsewhere.
  • Popularity: 59%

b. Their tendency to write melodramatically

  • Unsupported. Chopin adopted this tendency because it allowed her to avoid “the excesses” of sentimental novels, but nothing suggests that it robbed anyone’s writing of emotional impact.
  • Popularity: 9%

c. Their chief contribution to the realism movement

  • Unsupported. There’s no indication that the New Women were inspired by the local colorists, and nothing suggests that Chopin thought they were.
  • Popularity: 3%

d. Their focus on regional life

  • Unsupported. Chopin didn’t have any issue with their focus on regional life. Rather, her problem with them was their backward-looking focus on "the decline of women’s culture."
  • Popularity: 20%

e. Their conventions prevented emotional engagement

  • Anti-supported. Chopin used their conventions of narrating with scientific detachment precisely because they allowed her to portray extreme psychological states in a less over-the-top way.
  • Popularity: 10%

Difficulty

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Analysis

Question Stem Tags

  • Implied
  • Other’s perspective

Passage Tags

  • Art
  • Single position
  • Spotlight

Answer Popularity

  • a: 59%
  • b: 9%
  • c: 3%
  • d: 20%
  • e: 10%

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