I'm really thrown off by this question...
Where in the passage can you find (E)?
I picked (C) because of the line 47 where it says "new forms of ballet."
Please help!
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Re: Q12
We start by asking ourselves, "what were the dance forms that Dunham began studying in 1935"?
Those keywords are found in line 28, so this question stem is asking us "Which of the following is true about the traditional Caribbean dance forms that Dunham studied?"
(E) is supported by the fact that these dance forms had "their origins in African culture" (line 30-31).
African culture = non-Caribbean culture
origins = had some influence
== other answers ==
(A) beware the extreme language "more similar to ____ than to ANY other culture". We don't have wording that strong. In fact, it's fair to speculate that the Caribbean dance forms were more similar to African dance forms than to Pacific-island dance forms.
(B) beware the extreme language "they were the FIRST to use dance-isolation". We don't have any wording that strong. This is designed to confuse students who remember the passage saying that Dunham was the FIRST to bring dance-isolation to North American dance. But we don't know that Caribbean dance forms were the FIRST to use dance-isolation outside of Africa (maybe Pacific-island beat them to it)
(C) Does anything in this 3rd paragraph support that Caribbean dance had rhythmic similarities to ballet? The only reference to ballet comes at the end of the paragraph, when we learn that Dunham blended some of the Caribbean dance forms she learned into NEW forms of ballet. This doesn't mean that the old form of ballet had rhythmic similarities to the Caribbean dance forms. It doesn't even mean that the new forms of ballet had rhythmic similarities to the Caribbean dance forms. There's nothing about rhythm in the passage, as far as I can see. Be careful about picking answer choices like this just because SOME keywords ('ballet') line up ... that's how LSAT creates trap answers. Always be scanning an answer choice for wording you DON'T recognize, or DON'T think you can support.
(D) We don't have any support for the idea that the Caribbean dance forms she studied had already influenced popular dances in North America.
Hope this helps.
Those keywords are found in line 28, so this question stem is asking us "Which of the following is true about the traditional Caribbean dance forms that Dunham studied?"
(E) is supported by the fact that these dance forms had "their origins in African culture" (line 30-31).
African culture = non-Caribbean culture
origins = had some influence
== other answers ==
(A) beware the extreme language "more similar to ____ than to ANY other culture". We don't have wording that strong. In fact, it's fair to speculate that the Caribbean dance forms were more similar to African dance forms than to Pacific-island dance forms.
(B) beware the extreme language "they were the FIRST to use dance-isolation". We don't have any wording that strong. This is designed to confuse students who remember the passage saying that Dunham was the FIRST to bring dance-isolation to North American dance. But we don't know that Caribbean dance forms were the FIRST to use dance-isolation outside of Africa (maybe Pacific-island beat them to it)
(C) Does anything in this 3rd paragraph support that Caribbean dance had rhythmic similarities to ballet? The only reference to ballet comes at the end of the paragraph, when we learn that Dunham blended some of the Caribbean dance forms she learned into NEW forms of ballet. This doesn't mean that the old form of ballet had rhythmic similarities to the Caribbean dance forms. It doesn't even mean that the new forms of ballet had rhythmic similarities to the Caribbean dance forms. There's nothing about rhythm in the passage, as far as I can see. Be careful about picking answer choices like this just because SOME keywords ('ballet') line up ... that's how LSAT creates trap answers. Always be scanning an answer choice for wording you DON'T recognize, or DON'T think you can support.
(D) We don't have any support for the idea that the Caribbean dance forms she studied had already influenced popular dances in North America.
Hope this helps.
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