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This means that the artifacts that shed light on day-to-day Minoan culture were different from the gold artifacts and fancy architecture.Option D is incorrect because this isn’t the best supported conclusion. The passage only talks about Harriet Boyd Hawes’s work, not about the preferences of other archeologists.
Option E is incorrect because there isn’t enough information about this in the passage for us to draw this conclusion.
We know she excavated this Minoan town, but we don’t know what other regions, if any, her work covered.
Option C is the best choice. According to the passage, the artifacts Harriet Boyd Hawes found “shed light on the day-to-day culture (standard living) of the Minoans”.
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Question 5 refers to the following passage.
After writing her first novel, The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston realized that the American reading public was generally ignorant about Chinese Americans, so she deliberately put history lessons into her second novel, China Men even listing historical facts, such as items of anti-Chinese legislation.
Kingston contends that she felt compelled to do this, even at the risk of spoiling the dramatic moments in the narration, because sacrificing historical background for the sake of story in The Woman Warrior had not worked.
The “reviews of my first book made it clear that people did not know the history or they thought I did not know it,” she says.
“While I was writing China Men, I could not take that tension any more. So all of a sudden, right in the middle of the story, plunk there is an eight-page section of pure history. There are no characters in it. It really affects the shape of the book and might look quite clumsy".
The challenge that Kingston and other Asian American writers face is how to preserve the artistic integrity of their writing and be understood at the same time by readers whose ignorance of the cultural and historical background might necessitate explanations that interfere with the art.
5. The passage suggests that Kingston thought her approach to writing China Men might …
