#19 - Must Be True

[wchavez]

Could someone please offer an explanation to #19? I would greatly appreciate it.

-Wendy

[Jason Schultz]

Hi wchavez,

Question 19 in this section is a global must be true question. In this case, LSAC has gone all Jeopardy on you and asked you to answer with a question. So, to solve this, you must look back into the passage to see if you can indeed answer any of those questions definitively, using key words from the answer choice to help you find the reference in the passage.

Answer choice A is the correct one, because the answer was given between lines 10-15 - "such as gliding steps" etc. It is important while diagramming passages to note where the author stops to give specific examples. To give an example of my own, lets say an author wrote

"Several actors have later gone into a career in politics."

There's not much to work with there, right? Now take this one:

"Several actors have later gone into a career in politics, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Franken, and most notably Ronald Reagan."

That is a much more definitive statement, and one that can easily spur a question.

Does that help?

[brcibake]

Answer D seems like a much stronger choice to me. The passage talks about how she added different versions to tailor to different groups, so why is this not the answer? In this passage, a lot of the answer choices are ambiguous and there isn't a "best or strongest answer"
Thank you

[Eric Ockert]

Hi!

This was a difficult passage for people when it was issued back in 2008. One of the main reasons touches on your question. Aida Walker only had one version of the cakewalk, not multiple versions. Her version just ended up being many things to many different groups of people.

Answer choice (D) is not addressing Walker's version of the cakewalk, however. This answer is referring to the European American stage parodies at the end of the nineteenth century. These were mentioned in Lines 29-33, but the features of these parodies are never discussed. Therefore, the passage doesn't really give you any information to answer the question in answer choice (D).

Answer choice (A), on the other hand, was discussed back in Line 14 with the "gliding steps" and "emphasis on improvisation." These are described as "features characteristic of African dance forms" which would match the "attributes of African dance forms" the question posed in answer choice (A) is looking for.

Hope that clears things up a bit!