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

(45) changed readers expectations of art and enabled them to appreciate 　Hurston s novel The emergence of feminist criticism was crucial because 　such criticism brought new attention to neglected works such as Hurston s 　and alerted readers to Hurston s

(50) exploration of women s issues in her fictionl. The Afroncentric standards of 　evaluation were equally important to the rediscovery of Their Eyes, for such 　standards provided readers with the tools to recognize and appreciate the 　Black folklore and

(55) oral storytelling traditions Hurston incorporated within her work. In one of 　the most illuminating discussions of the novel to date. Henry Louis Gates Jr. 　states that "Hurston s strategy seems to concern itself with the possibilities 　of representation of the

(60) speaking Black voice in writing"

1. The passage suggests which one of the following about Harriet Wilson s novel?

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