Reading comprehension PrepTest 100 — Reading Comprehension (demo) · Section 1 · Question 1

Passage

Contemporary critics often treat a novelist’s political commitments as the key to interpreting their work. Yet focusing narrowly on ideology Remaining source text redacted.
Passage walkthrough
The passage argues that tying interpretation too closely to a novelist’s politics oversimplifies fiction and that narrative form—how the text guides attention and sympathy—is a better guide to its ethical stakes than ideological labels alone.

Question prompt

Which one of the Remaining source text redacted.
Why the credited answer is right

Credited answer: B

The notes below walk through why it fits the stem and how to eliminate the rest.

In short

The author’s central claim is that fiction’s moral complexity is best traced through narrative structure and the reader’s evolving judgments, not by treating characters as stand-ins for a political position.

Answer choices

  1. A
    Novelists should avoid expressing Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice A is not credited
    Seed note: choice (A) does not match the credited answer for this demo question.
  2. B
    A novel’s ethical implications Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice B matches the stem
    Seed note: choice (B) matches the credited answer for this demo question.
  3. C
    Scholars agree that ambiguity Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice C is not credited
    Seed note: choice (C) does not match the credited answer for this demo question.
  4. D
    Contemporary criticism has definitively Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice D is not credited
    Seed note: choice (D) does not match the credited answer for this demo question.
  5. E
    Readers should ignore plot Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice E is not credited
    Seed note: choice (E) does not match the credited answer for this demo question.

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