Correct. The answer is b. Lewis intended Carol Kennicott, a newcomer to Gopher Falls from a big city, to represent an urban perspective on small-town life. He intended Bea Sorenson, a newcomer to Gopher Falls from a distant farm, to represent a rural perspective on small-town life.

Incorrect. The answer is b. Lewis intended Carol Kennicott, a newcomer to Gopher Falls from a big city, to represent an urban perspective on small-town life. He intended Bea Sorenson, a newcomer to Gopher Falls from a distant farm, to represent a rural perspective on small-town life.

Correct. The answer is d. Yezierska was a child of immigrants who grew up in the crowded and poor Lower East Side of New York. Coming from that environment, she found small-town life clean, refreshing, and peaceful. Kennicott, the wife of a doctor, likely came from a privileged urban background that did not expose her to the seamy side of city life, which led her to experience small-town life as limited, provincial, and suffocating.

Incorrect. The answer is d. Yezierska was a child of immigrants who grew up in the crowded and poor Lower East Side of New York. Coming from that environment, she found small-town life clean, refreshing, and peaceful. Kennicott, the wife of a doctor, likely came from a privileged urban background that did not expose her to the seamy side of city life, which led her to experience small-town life as limited, provincial, and suffocating.

Correct. The answer is c. These two authors’ works, which offered new perspectives on long-standing assumptions about civilization, progress, and the alleged superiority of Western culture, stand as examples of intellectual modernism.

Incorrect. The answer is c. These two authors’ works, which offered new perspectives on long-standing assumptions about civilization, progress, and the alleged superiority of Western culture, stand as examples of intellectual modernism.

Correct. The answer is b. This excerpt from Middletown analyzed the ways consumer culture affected Americans in small midwestern towns, positing that most families were willing to borrow money in order to buy goods such as telephones and cars.

Incorrect. The answer is b. This excerpt from Middletown analyzed the ways consumer culture affected Americans in small midwestern towns, positing that most families were willing to borrow money in order to buy goods such as telephones and cars.