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Reading Comprehension · Meaning in Context

PrepTest 111 · Section 2 · Question 9

Phase 1 (your first ~400 questions): read the guidance, then answer. No clock.

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Meaning in Context
The one idea it tests
A quoted label means what the passage uses it for, which is usually set up by contrast.
The basic logic
Read around the phrase. If the artist 'moved beyond' it to something specific, the phrase means the general version of that thing.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “beyond”
  • “usual”
  • “rather”

Playground logic

Rosa went past grumble songs to sing about one farmer at a time, so grumble songs were about the whole town's troubles as a group.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 7–14). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Aunt Rosa's Banjo →

Step 3 · Try the model question

In the kid passage, 'grumble songs' most likely refers to songs that

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 111, Section 2, Question 9 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 9 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the quoted phrase and read the full sentence plus the next one. Look for a contrast that tells you what the artist did instead. Define the phrase as the opposite side of that contrast, and reject literal or word-matching readings.