Questions and Solutions for GRE Practice Test Second Edition. (Verbal Reasoning Section 4 Part 3)
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These are explanations and step by step solutions for the second edition of the ETS Practice Book for the Paper-Based GRE Revised General Test (Verbal Reasoning Section 4).
GRE Practice Test Second Edition - Complete Paper (pdf)
For each of Questions 9 to 15, select one answer
choice unless otherwise directed.
GRE Practice Test Second Edition. (Verbal Reasoning Section 4 solution for question 9)
9. The passage is primarily concerned with
A. tracing how Behn’s view of the nature of
tragedy changed over time
B. explaining one author’s view of Behn’s
contribution to the development of an
emerging literary form
C. differentiating between the early and the late
literary works of Behn
D. contrasting the approaches to tragedy taken by
Behn and by Dryden
E. presenting one scholar’s explanation for a
major development in Behn’s literary career
GRE Practice Test Second Edition. (Verbal Reasoning Section 4 solution for question 10)
10. The passage suggests that Carnell sees Behn’s
novels featuring male protagonists as differing
from dramatic tragedies such as Dryden’s featuring
male protagonists in that the former
A. depict these characters as less than heroic in
their public actions
B. emphasize the consequences of these
characters’ actions in the private sphere
C. insist on a parallel between the public and the
private spheres
D. are aimed at a predominantly female audience
E. depict family members who disobey these
protagonists
GRE Practice Test Second Edition. (Verbal Reasoning Section 4 solution for question 11)
11. The passage suggests that Carnell believes Behn
held which of the following attitudes about the
relationship between the private and public
spheres?
A. The private sphere is more appropriate than is
the public sphere as the setting for plays about
political events.
B. The structure of the private sphere should not
replicate the hierarchical order of the public
sphere.
C. Actions in the private sphere are more
fundamental to ensuring the good of the nation
than are actions in the public sphere.
D. Crimes committed in the private sphere are
likely to cause tragedy in the public sphere
rather than vice versa.
E. The private sphere is the mirror in which
issues affecting the public sphere can most
clearly be seen.
GRE Practice Test Second Edition. (Verbal Reasoning Section 4 solution for question 12)
12. It can be inferred from the passage that the
“artificial distinction” (lines 53-54) refers to the
A. practice utilized in dramatic tragedies of
providing different structural models for the
public and the private spheres
B. ideology of many dramatic tragedies that
advocate passive obedience only in the private
sphere and not in the public sphere
C. convention that drama ought to concern events
in the public sphere and that novels ought to
concern events in the private sphere
D. assumption made by the authors of
conventional dramatic tragedies that
legitimate tragic action occurs only in the
public sphere
E. approach taken by the dramatic tragedies in
depicting male and female characters
differently, depending on whether their roles
were public or private
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