PT104.S3.P2.Q13

PrepTest 104 - Section 3 - Passage 2 - Question 13

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P1

Personal names are generally regarded by European thinkers in two major ways, both of which deny that names have any significant semantic content. ███

Perspective · European view
Personal names lack semantic content
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Mill and Lévi-Strauss · Two European perspectives
Mill sees names as meaningless identifiers; Lévi-Strauss sees names as social markers.
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Critique · Mill and Lévi-Strauss' views neglect how names work in some societies
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Illustration of Critique · Hopi names have semantic content
Hopi names do more than what Mill or Lévi-Strauss suggest; can refer to events and be poetic
P2

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Develop Illustration · How Hopi names work
They place individuals within society through connection to rituals; confer individual identity; combine individual and clan characteristics
P3

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Further Develop Illustration · Hopi names are usually even more complex
Literal translation not enough to understand the name. Requires contextual knowledge. Names can indirectly refer to important events.
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Similarity · Hopi name poetic like Western Apache place names
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Critique of Mill and Lévi-Strauss · Hopi names defy their claims
Hopi names can be poetic; not just about distinguishing people or signaling status.
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Implication · Knowledge of Hopi culture is key to fully appreciating their names
Passage Style
Critique or debate
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a

their ability to ██ ██████████ ██ ████ █████

Supported. The author says here that Hopi names can be understood as oral texts, which contributes to their poetic quality.

19%
b

their use of █████████ ███████ ██ █████ ██████

Supported. The author says here and here that Hopi names use condensed imagery to evoke events. Because of this, we can see Hopi names as a kind of poetic composition and we can think of them as “tiny imagist poems.”

4%
c

their capacity to ███████ █████████ ███████

Supported. The author says here that Hopi names produce aesthetic delight, which contributes to their poetic quality.

5%
d

their ability to ██████ ████████ ████ ███████████

Unsupported. We see here that Hopi names do confer identity upon individuals, but this is not one of the features that contributes to their poetic quality. The author only discusses their poetic quality later in the text.

58%
e

their ability to ██████ ██████ ███████

Supported. This is implied throughout the text. The European perspectives on names deny that names convey any significant meaning. The author critiques this by showing that Hopi names do convey meaning. Their meaning contributes to their poetic quality through imagery and the ability to be understood as oral texts.

14%

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