Writing Workshop: Comparing Texts — Cumulative exam

Question 5 • CA-Common Core English Language Arts 11 B

Which statement best summarizes a central idea in Infinite Jest?

Answer

An individual’s true nature can be accurately defined only by external cultures and settings.

Outside observation is a more valid measure of reality than interpretations based on personal experience are.

A person’s inner self often struggles to overcome external definitions of self imposed by the outside world.

There is only one true reality, and it is separate from people’s personal and social perceptions.

Explanation

Infinite Jest often explores the tension between people’s inner lives and the identities or expectations imposed on them by families, institutions, and society. Choice C captures that conflict: a person’s inner self struggles against definitions of self imposed from outside. The other choices suggest that outside judgments are fully reliable or that there is a single reality independent of perception, ideas that do not best summarize this recurring theme.

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