Q6

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(moving Dan's original post here)

6. (B)
Question Type: Inference (24-36)
This question requires us to understand the function of paragraph 3. This paragraph introduces
Rita Dove as an example of a writer who has successfully mixed poetry and fiction (in order to
support the author’s view that there is no need for the rigid separation). Remember that just
about everything in the passage will be used directly or indirectly to support one side of the scale
or the other. We want to choose an answer that interprets the text in lines 32-36 in this way.
Answer choice (B) does this. This ultimate purpose of this piece of text is support the notion that
poetry and fiction should not be rigidly separated.

(A) is out of scope. Nowhere are English-speaking societies compared with other societies.
(C) is an unsupported interpretation. It misses the point.
(D) is an unsupported interpretation. Again, this fails to get at the real reason why this part of the
text has been included.
(E) is a bit more attractive because it does reference an opposition to the separation of fiction and
poetry, but nowhere do we get any indication that the Germany experience was the origin of her
opposition. This is an unsupported interpretation.