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Directions: The next questions are based on the content of the following passage. Read the passage and then determine the best answer choice for each question. Base your choice on what this passage states directlyor implies, not on any information you may have gained elsewhere.For each of Questions, select one answer choice unless otherwise instructed.As the works of dozens of womenwriters have been rescued from what E. P.Thompson calls "the enormous condescen-Line sion of posterity," and considered in relation(5) to each other, the lost continent of thefemale tradition has risen like Atlantis fromthe sea of English literature. It is nowbecoming clear that, contrary to Mill’s the-ory, women have had a literature of their(10) own all along. The woman novelist, accord-ing to Vineta Colby, was "really neither sin-gle nor anomalous," but she was also morethan a "register and spokesman for her age."She was part of a tradition that had its ori-(15) gins before her age, and has carried onthrough our own.Many literary historians have begun toreinterpret and revise the study of womenwriters. Ellen Moers sees women’s literature(20) as an international movement, "apart from,but hardly subordinate to the mainstream:an undercurrent, rapid and powerful. This’movement’ began in the late eighteenth cen-tury, was multinational, and produced some(25) of the greatest literary works of two centuries,as well as most of the lucrative pot-boilers."Patricia Meyer Spacks, in The FemaleImagination, finds that "for readily discerniblehistorical reasons women have characteristi-(30) cally concerned themselves with matters moreor less peripheral to male concerns, or at leastslightly skewed from them. The differencesbetween traditional female preoccupationsand roles and male ones make a difference in(35) female writing." Many other critics are begin-ning to agree that when we look at womenwriters collectively we can see an imaginativecontinuum, the recurrence of certain pat-terns, themes, problems, and images fromgeneration to generation.In the second paragraph of the passage the author’s attitude toward the literary critics cited can best be described as one of()
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