medium · LSAT Reading Comprehension
Many critics believe that the author's third novel was a radical departure from her earlier work. This assessment, however, ignores the persistent preoccupation with social mobility that runs through her entire body of work. The third novel is better understood as a maturation of those themes than as a rejection of them.
The claim that the third novel was a radical departure plays which one of the following roles in the passage?
- It is a view the passage cites at the outset specifically in order to argue against it.
- It is neutral background information that establishes the era in which the novel was written.
- It is a subordinate conclusion the passage relies on to reach a broader synthesis.
- It is a supporting premise the passage advances on behalf of its own central thesis.
- It is the very thesis that the entire remainder of the passage then sets out to defend at length.
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