Text Structure and Purpose

SAT Reading and Writing· difficulty 3/5

Although best known for her novels, Zora Neale Hurston was also a serious anthropologist. In the 1930s she traveled across the American South and Caribbean recording folktales, work songs, and religious practices among Black communities. Her field notes, recently republished, reveal a methodical observer with formal training in ethnographic methods.

Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence in the text?

  • A

    It supports the description by detailing the kind of fieldwork she undertook.

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  • B

    It introduces a different novelist.

  • C

    It contradicts the description of Hurston as an anthropologist.

  • D

    It defines the term 'folktale'.

Explanation

The 1930s travels and recordings concretize the anthropologist label. B captures this supporting function.

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