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Extended debate concerning the exact point oforigin of individual folktales told by Afro-American
slaves has unfortunately taken precedence over analy-
sis of the tales meaning and function. Cultural con-
tinuities with Africa were not dependent on importa-
tion and perpetuation of specific folktales in their
pristine form. It is in the place that tales occupied in
the lives of the slaves and in the meaning slaves
derived from them that the clearest resemblances to
African tradition can be found. Afro-American slaves
did not borrow tales indiscriminately from the Whites
among whom they lived. Black people were most
influenced by those Euro-American tales whose func-
tional meaning and aesthetic appeal had the greatest
similarity to the tales with deep roots in their ances-
tral homeland. Regardless of where slave tales came
from, the essential point is that, with respect to lan-
guage, delivery, details of characterization, and plot,
slaves quickly made them their own.
17. The author claims that most studies of folktales
told by Afro-American slaves are inadequate
because the studies
(A) fail to recognize any possible Euro-
American influence on the folktales
(B) do not pay enough attention to the features
of a folktale that best reveal an African
influence
(C) overestimate the number of folktales
brought from Africa by the slaves
(D) do not consider the fact that a folktale can
be changed as it is retold many times
(E) oversimplify the diverse and complex tradi-
tions of the slaves ancestral homeland
18. The author’s main purpose is to
(A) create a new field of study
(B) discredit an existing field of study
(C) change the focus of a field of study
(D) transplant scholarly techniques from one
field of study to another
(E) restrict the scope of a burgeoning new field
of study
19. The passage suggests that the author would
regard which of the following areas of inquiry as
most likely to reveal the slaves’ cultural continu-
ities with Africa?
(A) The means by which Blacks disseminated
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their folktales in nineteenth-centuryAmerica
(B) Specific regional differences in the styles of
delivery used by the slaves in telling
folktales
(C) The functional meaning of Black folktales
in the lives of White children raised by
slaves
(D) The specific way the slaves used folktales to
impart moral teachings to their children
(E) The complexities of plot that appear most
frequently in the slaves’ tales
20. Which of the following techniques is used by
the author in developing the argument in the
passage?
(A) Giving a cliche a new meaning
(B) Pointedly refusing to define key terms
(C) Alternately presenting generalities and
concrete details
(D) Concluding the passage with a restatement
of the first point made in the passage
(E) Juxtaposing statements of what is not the
case and statements of what is the case
17.B 18.C 19.D 20.E 21.A 22.C 23.E 24.B 25.E 26.A 27.D
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