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 background information establishing the historical setting of the novel.
- It is a subordinate conclusion the passage uses to reach a broader synthesis.
- It is a premise supporting the passage's own central thesis.
- It is the very thesis the rest of the passage is devoted to defending.
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