17. The author claims that most studies of folktales told by Afro-American slaves are inadequate because the studies
fail to recognize any possible Euro-American influence on the folktales
do not pay enough attention to the features of a folktale that best reveal an African influence
overestimate the number of folktales brought from Africa by the slaves
do not consider the fact that a folktale can be changed as it is retold many times
oversimplify the diverse and complex traditions of the slaves ancestral homeland
18. The author s main purpose is to
create a new field of study
discredit an existing field of study
change the focus of a field of study
transplant scholarly techniques from one field of study to another
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 continuities with Africa?
The means by which Blacks disseminated their folktales in nineteenth-century America
Specific regional differences in the styles of delivery used by the slaves in telling folktales
The functional meaning of Black folktales in the lives of White children raised by slave
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