Re: What little scholarship has existed on Ernest Hemingwayconsidering
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25 Sep 2018, 15:43
1. B. The key here is that we are talking about "a departure from the earlier biographies." While the earlier biographies show Hemmingway to be "not too dissimilar from the myth," the newer ones the passsage says have "reversed the trend." The trend effectively being showing hemmingway the man and the myth being rather similar. To reverse this trend would mean that the newer biographies are showing the myth of hemmingway to NOT be similar to the myth of him, which is what answer B states.
2. This is an "all possible answers" question so the veracity of each answer MUST be considered, unlike question 1 where we could find out what the question is asking and match the answer to the correct statement as a possible way to solve. A is incorrect because "little scholarship" exists despite his renown. Commensurate basically means "in equal portion," and so the statement in A is at odds with the passage saying that there isn't a lot of writing about him, despite being very famous. B is also incorrect because the passage says "the latest biographers have shown -perhaps unwittingly-" inferring that it was not necessarily a conscious effort on the part of the biographer, as statement B states. By knowing A and B are incorrect, we can assume C must be correct, but its still best to go through the thought process as to why (useful as finding C to be incorrect might make you rethink your logic for a previous statement and realize you made a mistake). "Until recently, Hemmingway biographies have shown a similar trend" is correct, with that trend (as stated in question 1's explaination) being the biographer showing hemmingway to be similar to the "myth of hemmingway." The answer is therefore C.