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VR12. Reverse Questions – Homework 2
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Now that you have gone through the theory for answering Reverse questions, let’s put it to the test!
J.D. Salinger, at one time thought to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, famous for not wanting to be famous, died on Wednesday at his home in Cornish, N.H., where he had lived reclusively for more than 50 years. He was 91.
Though not everyone, teachers and librarians especially, was sure what to make of it, his work “Catcher in the Rye” became an almost immediate best seller, and its narrator and main character, Holden Caulfield, a teenager newly expelled from prep school, became America’s best-known literary truant since Huckleberry Finn.
With its cynical, vernacular voice, its sympathetic understanding of adolescence and its fierce if alienated sense of morality and distrust of the adult world, the novel struck a nerve in cold war America and quickly attained cult status, especially among the young. Reading “Catcher” used to be an essential rite of passage.
The novel’s allure persists to this day, even if some of Holden’s preoccupations now seem a bit dated, and it continues to sell more than 250,000 copies a year. Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon in 1980, even said the explanation for his act could be found in the pages of “The Catcher in the Rye.” In 1974 Philip Roth wrote, “The response of college students to the work of J. D. Salinger indicates that he, more than anyone else, has not turned his back on the times but, instead, has managed to put his finger on whatever struggle of significance is going on today between self and culture.”
(Adapted from The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29salinger.html)
Explanation
This is a type 2 statement question, which poses a time pressure. Make sure you take some time to get to grips with the passage before using the Medic Mind Shortcuts to choose a statement to assess first. Statements 2 and 4 have the keywords quarter of a million (remember the number as well, 250,000) and World War 2 (or WW2), respectively. Statement C has the key name Huckleberry Finn. Any of these would be a reasonable place to start.
Statement A can be found in the opening to the text, which states that Salinger was famous for not wanting to be famous. Therefore, this statement can be inferred from the text.
Statement B requires you to search for the number, not the word as a key-phrase in the passage. It says that Catcher still sells 250,000 copies a year. However, with nothing to tell us whether these are hard copies or e-books, we cannot infer this statement therefore it is the correct answer.
Statement C can be found in paragraph 2 which lists Caulfield as the best-known literary truant since Huck Finn, therefore it is a reasonable inference that he too was a truant.
Statement D requires you to infer from that fact that the opening says Salinger emerged after World War 2. Therefore, this statement can be reasonably inferred.
Timing tip!
Use the Medic Mind Shortcuts: extreme language, good keywords and common sense, to select a good Statement B assess first. Here, the strongest keywords are in statements 2, 3 and 4 so don’t just default to starting at 1! If you start with 2 here, you will save a lot of time for the rest of the exam by finding it as the correct answer first.