Notable as important nineteenth-century novels by women, Mary Shelley’

1. The primary purpose of the passage is to

(A) defend a controversial interpretation of two novels
There is no interpretation made, and neither defended
(B) explain the source of widely recognized responses to two novels
There is no explanation of sources in the passage
(C) delineate broad differences between two novels
Well this seems correct but the focus does not lie on delineating broad differences, except for how the treat woman differently. Maybe there is a better answer
(D) compare and contrast two novels
This is exactly what the author of the passage does.
(E) criticize and evaluate two novels
The passage is not a critic, no subject opinions are given

2. According the passage, Frankenstein differs from Wuthering Heights in its

(A) use of multiple narrators
Not mentioned. Out
(B) method of disguising the author’s real purposes
Not mentioned. Out
(C) portrayal of men as determiners of the novel’s action
"Shelley... dependent on the actions of male heroes or anti-heroes.." and "Bronte ... portraying a world where men battle for the favors of ... women. Thus C
(D) creation of a realistic story
No
(E) controversial effect on readers
No

Kindly provide explanation for Q3 & Q4 for above stated passage?

Hello Experts.

For ques 2, i understand why Option C is correct but can you please explain why option D is incorrect?
The passage clearly mentions that Wuthering Heights has a more realistic narrative. So can't we imply that the other novel is less realistic and hence this can be the difference?

Thanks
Lakshay

Hello my friend,
the reason is that none of the authors is directly analyzed/compared in term of "realism" in this text.
Enjoy the rest of the day

Hi

its my understanding only,
Both the authors' common point of the discussion revolves around male-female positions in their respective books
and hence D is not correct

Can someone please explain the solution for Que. no.3

I did not understand the third question. can someone throw some light on option c and e and why is E wrong.

Dear Experts,

Could you pls help with explanation of Q3?

More generally, if you could, how to decipher vocabulary intensive RC sentences (like this one) and corresponding answer choices.
30 secs in the question, I knew I had no idea what evidentiary narrative technique is, I still ended up giving it whole 2:26 mins, POE-ed to B, and then got it wrong.

Which test are you studying for?

If you're studying for the GMAT, then do not go down this road. The GMAT will NEVER give you problems that hang on the definition of a relatively obscure or 'advanced' word.
The only words whose definitions you will NEED to know for the GMAT are words that any well-educated user of the English language—a group that includes you, if you're studying for the GMAT and considering attending an English-language graduate business school—should know.

If you come across a difficult word anywhere in the GMAT verbal section, then one of the following things will be true:

1/ (MOST COMMONLY) There will be enough context clues—quite often more than enough of them!—for you to figure out what the word means.
In these cases, you may not be able to figure out all of the granular specifics of this definition. E.g., you may only be able to figure out "[WORD] is some type of _____". But... if that's all you can figure out, then it's all you'll NEED to figure out.

2/ You won't need to understand the definition of the word at all.
This occasionally happens in scientific RC passages. When such a passage contains a region that's dense with scientific details and jargon, it's very unlikely that you'll need any specific understanding of those words—it'll almost certainly be enough to ascertain what type of information you're reading, and WHY that information is there (i.e., what function that information serves, relative to the main theme(s) of the passage).

Or...
3/ The word actually isn't very advanced, but, for some reason—maybe terrible luck, maybe not having read enough decently high-level English reading material, possibly both of those—you just haven't learned it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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