SECTION IV
Time—35 minutes
27 Questions
Directions: Each passage in this section is followed by a group of questions to be answered on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. For some of the questions, more than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question However, you are to choose the best answer that is the response that most accurately and completely answers the questions. and blacken the corresponding space on your answer sheet.
Many literary scholars believe that Zora Neale Hurston s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) has been the primary influence on some of the most accomplished Black women writing in the United
(5) States today. Indeed, Alice Walker, the author of the prize-winning novel The Color Purple. has said of Their Eyes. "There is no book more important to me than this one." Thus, it seems necessary to ask why Their Eyes, a work now viewed by a multitude
(10) of readers as remarkably successful in its complex depiction of a Black woman s search for self and community. was ever relegated to the margins of the literary canon
The details of the novel s initial reception help
(15) answer this question. Unlike the recently rediscovered and rerexamined work of Harriet Wilson. Their Eyes was not totally ignored by book reviewers upon its publication. In fact, it received a mixture of positive and negative reviews both from
(20) White book reviewers working for prominent periodicals and from important figures within Black literary circles In the Saturday Review of Literanre George Stevens wrote that "the narration is exactly right, because most of it is dialogue and the
(25) dialogue gives us a constant sense of character in action The negative criticism was partially a result of Hurston s ideological differences with other members of the Black Americans in literature. Black
(30) writers of the 1940s believed that the Black artist s primary responsibility was to create protest fiction that explored the negative effects of racism in the United States. For example, Richard Wright, the author of the much acclaimed Native Son (1940)
(35) wrote that Their Eyes had "no theme" and "no message" Most crities and readers expectations of Black literature rendered them unable to appreciate Hurston s subtle delineation of the life of an ordinary Black woman in a Black community
(40) and the novel went quietly out of print
Recent acclaim for Their Eyes results from the emergence of feminist literary criticism and the development of standards of evaluation specific to the work of Black writers; these kinds of criticism英语作文
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