Câu 17: CBEST Section 2 Reading: California Basic Educational Skills Test - Reading

The fictional world of Toni Morrison’s novel Sula—the African-American section of Medallion, Ohio, a community called "the Bottom"—is a place where people, and even natural things, are apt to go awry, to break from their prescribed boundaries, a place where bizarre and unnatural happenings and strange reversals of the ordinary are commonplace. The very naming of the setting of Sula is a turningupside- down of the expected; the Bottom is located high up in the hills. The novel is furthermore filled with images of mutilation, both psychological and physical. A great part of the lives of the characters, therefore, is taken up with making sense of the world, setting boundaries and devising methods to control what is essentially uncontrollable. One of the major devices used by the people of theBottom is the seemingly universal one of creating a ____________in this case, the title character Sulaupon which to project both the evil they perceive outside themselves and the evil in their own hearts. On the basis of above passage please answer the following question. Which of the following words would BEST fit into the blank in the final sentence of the passage?

1. A. victim
2. B. hero
3. C. leader
4. D. scapegoat — đáp án hiện tại
5. E. outcast