<p>In lines 39-62, the author reveals herself to be someone who believes that</p>
<p>(C) conventional approaches should be open to questioning and reevaluation
(D) traditional methods often reflect the accumulated insight of generations</p>
<p>I’m having problems differentiating between the two answers (both seem justifiable), and the college board explanations aren’t clear to me. Also, is there any general rule about critical reading incorrect/correct answer types that I can deduce from this question?</p>
<p>The college board explanations:</p>
<p>Choice (C) is correct. By presenting her reaction to a conventional approach in lines 39-62, the author reveals herself to be someone who believes that conventional approaches should be open to questioning and reevaluation. The author states that she had been trained in the tradition of acting called psychological realism but became more and more troubled by the method as a teacher of acting. She then describes her process of reevaluating this conventional method. Finding it to be unsatisfactory (aesthetically it seemed limited), she began exploring techniques that went against the grain of the psychological realism tradition. Her description of this process clearly demonstrates that the author believes conventional approaches should be open to questioning.</p>
<p>Choice (D) is incorrect. The author might believe that traditional methods often reflect the accumulated insight of generations, but that is not her topic in these lines. By presenting her reaction to the traditional method (or conventional approach) of psychological realism, she reveals that she believes even conventional approaches should be open to questioning and reevaluation.</p>