LSAT PrepTest 139 - Section 2 - Passage 3 - Question 15

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Most scholars of Mexican American history mark César Chávez's unionizing efforts among Mexican and Mexican American farm laborers in California as the beginning of Chicano political activism in the 1960s. ██ █████ █████████ ██████ ████ ███████ █████ ██████ █████████████ ███████████ ██ ██████████ █ █████████ ███████ ██ ██████ ██ ██ ██████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ██████████ ██ ████ █████ ██████████ ███ ████ ████ ████ █████ ███ █████ ██ ████████████ ███████ ████████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ██████ ██████████ ███████ █████ █████ ███████ ██ ████████ ████ ████████ ██████ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ███ █████████ ██████ █████████ ███ █████████ ████████ ██ ████████ ██ ██████ █████████ ███ ███████ ███████ █████████ █ ████████ ████ █████ █████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ██████

Into topic · Teatro Campesino theater company and Chicano theater movement

Valdez, who wanted to use theater for worker activism, connected with Chávez, a union leader for Mexican farm workers, and created the Teatro Campesino

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Origins of Chicano theater movement · Valdez created "actos" (skits) with striking farm workers

Note the analogy drawn between farm work and theater: author references "players" in the "drama" of fieldwork

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Characteristics of actos · Satirical, propose solutions, and inspire to action

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Three perspectives · Theater historians', critic's, and author's

Theater historians say Valdez invented actos; critic Broyles-González says historians are wrong and the farm workers also deserve credit; and author says Broyles-González is right

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Elaborate on origin of actos · Likely influenced by "carpas," an earlier form of satirical theater

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Main point · Teatro Campesino's actos were a fusion of carpas and European-style theater thanks to the combined influences of farm works and Valdez

Passage Style

Critique or debate

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Question Type

Purpose in context (of word, phrase, or idea)

Structure

To understand the purpose, read the line before and after the second sentence. The first sentence tells us that scholars consider Chavez’s unionization efforts as the beginning of Chicano political activism in the 1960s. The second sentence then tells us about Chavez’s unionization efforts and how they gained recognition. The third sentence tells us that at the same time, Valdez birthed contemporary Chicano theater. The rest of the passage focuses on Valdez and Chicano theater. This suggests the purpose of the second sentence is about presenting context for the rest of the passage. It’s difficult to come up with a more specific prediction, so we’ll probably have to rely on process of elimination.

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This is the best answer. The second sentence helps explain a motivation of those who developed actos — they were motivated by unionization efforts and concerns of farmworkers. It also helps explain an important aspect of the subject matter of actos — they presented problems of farmworkers.

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The second sentence doesn’t suggest there was any obstacle to gaining public acceptance for the work of the Teatro Campesino.

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The author never suggests that there is a potential objection to the idea that Teatro Campesino was effective political theater.

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The author doesn’t suggest that scholars have focused on something to the “exclusion” of theater history. The author never indicates that scholars neglect to give proper attention to Valdez or Chicano theater.

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The idea that Valdez is mistakenly thought to be individually responsible for actos has nothing to do with the claim about Chavez and the farm workers union.

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