What role did women play in the preservation of oral literature mentioned in…
2024
What role did women play in the preservation of oral literature mentioned in the passage?
Answer: B. They created, preserved and transmitted these forms of literature. — Concept In literal reading comprehension, the accepted answer must reproduce the passage’s explicit claim without narrowing, expanding, or reversing it. For a…
- A.
They solely created these forms but did not preserve them.
- B.
They created, preserved and transmitted these forms of literature.
- C.
They had no role in preserving these forms.
- D.
They only passed them down.
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
Concept
In literal reading comprehension, the accepted answer must reproduce the passage’s explicit claim without narrowing, expanding, or reversing it. For a compound option, identify each action and test scope words such as only, no, or mainly against the source text.
Application
Locate the relevant claim: the passage says that women partly or entirely created these oral forms.
Read the next explicit claim: the same body of literature was preserved and transmitted mainly by women.
Combine the actions without changing their scope: the passage attributes creation, preservation, and transmission to women.
Contrast
The claim that women created the forms but did not preserve them drops the passage’s explicit preservation role.
The claim that women had no preservation role reverses the passage’s statement.
The claim that women only passed the forms down omits creation and preservation.
Cross-check
The accepted wording retains all three passage-based actions and adds no role that the passage does not mention.
Result
Women created, preserved, and transmitted these forms of oral literature.