Lorenzo Tucker

Answer choices

1. A

   Wrong Emphasis3% picked this

   The career biography of Tucker constitutes an important addition to the history of U.S. theater and film mainly because of the innovative methods used

   Wrong Emphasis: mainly because of Out of Scope: innovative The author would probably say that Tucker's bio is an important addition mainly because not enough attention has thus far been paid to him or this part of U.S. entertainment history. The author doesn't ever signal that any of her methods of research are particularly innovative. And she doesn't sound like she's correcting misinterpretations, so much as filling in knowledge gaps.

   3%
2. B

   Correct88% picked this

   Evidence from a variety of sources, including information from Tucker's own oral accounts, has been scrutinized and combined to create a career biography of

   Why this is right

   This wraps its arms around much of the passage. Evidence from a variety of sources = beginning of P2, where learn about microfilmed correspondence, photos, programs, newspapers, the 10 available films he was in, and the personal interviews with him. Scrutinized and combined = the beginning of P4 reassures us that this potentially suspect oral testimony has "undergone careful scrutiny". Career bio of Tucker = last sentence of the passage Fill certain gaps = the two mentions in the first paragraph about insufficient scholarship and not enough attention.

   Skill tested: Main Point · how this choice captures the passage's function is the move to repeat next time.

   88%
3. C

   Unsupported Relationship1% picked this

   Tucker's interest in preserving a record of the development of African American film and theater and his initiative in making that record public have

   This posits a causal story that sounds like, "Tucker set out to preserve and make public a vast collection of African American film and theater, which is now filling in the gaps". The passage, meanwhile, was like, "I wrote a paper about Tucker, who happened to preserve a lot of things about African American film and theater, and by making my paper public it will help fill in the gaps."

   1%
4. D

   Too Narrow / Broad7% picked this

   The research methods used in creating the biography of Tucker exemplify some of the problems inherent in the quest for objectivity in recording the

   This is too narrow in the sense that only the 3rd paragraph was concerned with the potential pitfalls of the research method of interviewing the living subject of a biography. This was our author's attempt to anticipate and allay possible fears about whether her paper on Tucker would be unreliable due to its method / primary source. This is too broad in the sense that our author wasn't writing about Tucker as an example of her main point, which is actually about the inherent problems in the quest for objectivity. The main point was "hey, wanna hear about Tucker's life?" and her subsidiary concern was, "by the way, I'm aware of some of the problems inherent in the quest for objectivity".

   7%
5. E

   Wrong Emphasis1% picked this

   Previous theater and film historians have been mistaken in paying too little attention to the extensive nonperforming contributions that Tucker made to the development

   Our author is definitely saying that historians haven't paid enough attention to Tucker, but she's not saying "sure, they now him as a film actor and theater performer, but they haven't paid enough attention to his nonperforming contributions." Instead, she's just saying, "Tucker is a really interesting figure, both for his performing and nonperforming contributions, and historians haven't studied him enough".

   1%