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Complete Question Explanation
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=10965)
The correct answer choice is (B)
Due to the general nature of this question, the method of elimination is likely to prove useful—any answer choice that cannot be proven by the passage will be incorrect. Such questions have the potential of being especially time-consuming: if you are down to the last eight minutes in this section, you may be better off skipping this question and moving on to the last passage.
Answer choice (A): The discussion of carpas in the third paragraph makes no mention of them being widely analyzed by both U.S. and Mexican theater historians. Carpas had flourished in the border communities of Mexico and the U.S., but their critical reception remains unknown.
Answer choice (B): This is the correct answer choice. In lines 31-33, the author remarks that the acto had become the “quintessential form of Chicano theater in the 1960s.” Actos, as they are described in the second paragraph, are skits and sketches that aim to ridicule (line 24), satirize the opposition (line 36), and “suggest a solution to the problems exposed in brief comic statement(s)” (lines 34-35). It is not unreasonable to conclude, therefore, that comedy—in the form of actos—was a prominent feature of Chicano theater in the 1960s.
Answer choice (C): Just because the actos have substantial cultural links to the tradition of the carpas does not mean that Valdez purposefully attempted to recreate elements of the carpas. This is not an inference we can make given the information presented in the third paragraph of the passage.
Answer choice (D): The earliest actos were clearly improvisational (line 25), as they were based on participants’ personal experiences (line 38). Valdez may have directed them, but he did not compose their scripts.
Answer choice (E): Hopefully you were able to eliminate this answer choice relatively quickly, because no mention is made of Valdez’s subsequent contributions to theater.
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=10965)
The correct answer choice is (B)
Due to the general nature of this question, the method of elimination is likely to prove useful—any answer choice that cannot be proven by the passage will be incorrect. Such questions have the potential of being especially time-consuming: if you are down to the last eight minutes in this section, you may be better off skipping this question and moving on to the last passage.
Answer choice (A): The discussion of carpas in the third paragraph makes no mention of them being widely analyzed by both U.S. and Mexican theater historians. Carpas had flourished in the border communities of Mexico and the U.S., but their critical reception remains unknown.
Answer choice (B): This is the correct answer choice. In lines 31-33, the author remarks that the acto had become the “quintessential form of Chicano theater in the 1960s.” Actos, as they are described in the second paragraph, are skits and sketches that aim to ridicule (line 24), satirize the opposition (line 36), and “suggest a solution to the problems exposed in brief comic statement(s)” (lines 34-35). It is not unreasonable to conclude, therefore, that comedy—in the form of actos—was a prominent feature of Chicano theater in the 1960s.
Answer choice (C): Just because the actos have substantial cultural links to the tradition of the carpas does not mean that Valdez purposefully attempted to recreate elements of the carpas. This is not an inference we can make given the information presented in the third paragraph of the passage.
Answer choice (D): The earliest actos were clearly improvisational (line 25), as they were based on participants’ personal experiences (line 38). Valdez may have directed them, but he did not compose their scripts.
Answer choice (E): Hopefully you were able to eliminate this answer choice relatively quickly, because no mention is made of Valdez’s subsequent contributions to theater.