PrepTest 124 - Section 4 - Passage 1 - Question 3

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Asian American poetry from Hawaii, the Pacific island state of the United States, is generally characterizable in one of two ways: either as portraying a model multicultural paradise, or as exemplifying familiar Asian American literary themes such as generational conflict. ███

Typical Asian-Am poetry from Hawaii · Portrays multicultural paradise or shows familiar theme of generational conflict

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Wing Tek Lum's work · Unlike typical Asian-Am poetry

Doesn't romanticize multicultural life, and keeps a local sensibility.

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Example · One poem emphasizes need for new identity in Hawaii

Ties to Chinese homeland are important, but a new Hawaiian identity is equally important.

Example · Another poem criticizes acclaimed Chinese poets

The point is Wing Tek Lum wasn't just stereotypically honoring poets from the past.

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Example · One poem shows complexity of determining one's identity

Identity is based both on one's heritage and on local culture. Wing Tek Lum also cautions that U.S. culture's focus on individual drive and success should be responded to in ways that allow a healthy identify to form.

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To understand the meaning of the phrase, read both the line containing the phrase and the line immediately before that line. The author tells us that the Lum wrote a poem in which the speaker realizes that it’s important to have ties to the Chinese homeland and to one’s “new family” in Hawaii. The “flux within Hawaiian society” refers to this “new family” — the mix of people in Hawaii that contributes to the heterogeneity of the Hawaiian people and culture.

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This doesn’t fit as the meaning of the phrase, because the author doesn’t bring up social tension among Hawaiian citizens in the paragraph containing the phrase.

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The author never denies that Hawaiian society is culturally different from the culture of continental U.S.

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The author doesn’t discuss the process by which immigrants adapt to their new communities. Although the author does indicate that Lum believes it’s important to develop a new identity, this doesn’t imply anything regarding how immigrants adapt to new communities or the “process” by which they do so.

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This is the best answer, because it’s the only one that captures the reference to the heterogeneity (cultural diversity) of Hawaii.

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This doesn’t fit, because the author doesn’t mention changing attitudes of immigrants toward traditional cultural norms in P2.

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