{"id":"cb_question_bank:d8d83807-07dd-4b42-836e-dbd7ea2ea191","source_id":"cb_question_bank","source_item_id":"d8d83807-07dd-4b42-836e-dbd7ea2ea191","external_id":"77881421-3e40-4139-8342-2d1cb10f3af0","ibn":null,"question_id":"86b78078","program":"SAT","module":"english","domain_code":"EOI","domain":"Expression of Ideas","skill_code":"SYN","skill":"Rhetorical Synthesis","difficulty":"M","score_band":4,"answer_type":"mcq","answer_source":"key","layout_warning":null,"form_id":null,"module_number":null,"position":null,"stem":"The student wants to introduce Samuel Selvon and his novel The Lonely Londoners to a new audience. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?","stimulus":"While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Samuel Selvon was a Trinidadian author. The Lonely Londoners is one of his most celebrated novels. Selvon published the novel in 1956. It is about a group of men who emigrate from the Caribbean to Great Britain after World War II. Some of The Lonely Londoners ’ characters also appear in Selvon’s later novel Moses Ascending .","stimulus_html":"

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

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The student wants to introduce Samuel Selvon and his novel The Lonely Londoners to a new audience. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

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Choice A is the best answer. By noting that Selvon is a Trinidadian author and indicating that The Lonely Londoners, published in 1956, is about a group of men who emigrate from the Caribbean to Great Britain after World War II, the sentence effectively introduces Samuel Selvon and his novel to a new audience.

Choice B is incorrect. The sentence indicates the order in which two of Selvon’s novels were written; it doesn’t introduce Samuel Selvon and The Lonely Londoners to a new audience. Choice C is incorrect. While the sentence describes the novel The Lonely Londoners, it doesn’t mention its author, Samuel Selvon, by name and thus doesn’t effectively introduce him to a new audience. Choice D is incorrect. The sentence indicates that two of Selvon’s novels include the same characters; it doesn’t introduce Samuel Selvon and The Lonely Londoners to a new audience.

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In 1956, Trinidadian author Samuel Selvon published one of his most celebrated novels, The Lonely Londoners, which is about a group of men who emigrate from the Caribbean to Great Britain after World War II.

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Samuel Selvon wrote the novel Moses Ascending after he wrote The Lonely Londoners. 

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The Lonely Londoners, a celebrated novel that was published in 1956, depicts post–World War II Caribbean migration from the perspective of a Trinidadian author.

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Some of the characters who appear in Samuel Selvon’s Moses Ascending also appear in The Lonely Londoners.

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