Question

questions 7 through 15 refer to the following.
read the following poem carefully before you choose your answers.
magpe andersons’s poem “among elms and maples, morgantown, west
virginia, august 1935” was published in 1986.
among elms and maples, morgantown, west virginia, august 1935
houses are wedged between the tall stacks 1
of seneca glass beside the monongahela 2
and waffle up steep hills. here, the terrain
allows photographers to appear acrobatic.
5 walker evans 3 liked standing on a hill, focusing
down so it seemed he was poised on a branch.
he liked the single telephone pole against
the flat sky, crossed off-center like a crucifix.
beneath it, among elms and maples, is the house
10 my mother lived in with her sister and their mother
nearly fifty years ago. in this shot, evans
only wanted the rough surfaces of clapboard
houses, their meshed roofs and slanted gables.
he didn’t want my mother peeling the thin skin
15 from tomatoes with a sharp knife, my clumsy
aunt grace chasing the ones she’d dropped
around the linoleum floor. that would be another
picture, not this one. i look back from the future,
past the undulating, unremitting line of hills
20 evans framed my family in, through the shaggy fronds
of summer ferns he used as foreground and as border.

8
the setting described in the poem is best identified as a landscape that
a was photographed by walker evans from multiple
angles on multiple occasions
b is depicted in a photograph that has captured the
speaker’s attention
c the speaker has sought out after seeing it in a
photograph
d the speaker is revisiting after having spent many
years away

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze each option:

• Option A: The poem doesn't mention multiple photographing occasions/angles by Walker Evans. Eliminate A.
• Option B: The setting (houses, hills, etc.) is part of what the photograph captured, drawing the speaker's attention. The poem describes the landscape as depicted in the photograph (from lines about the house, hills, etc. related to the photograph context).
• Option C: The poem doesn't say the speaker sought out the place after seeing the photo. Eliminate C.
• Option D: The "many years away" refers to the time since the photo was taken, not the speaker revisiting the place. Eliminate D.

So the correct option is B as it aligns with the poem's description of the setting being in the photograph that captured the speaker's attention.

Answer:

B. is depicted in a photograph that has captured the speaker’s attention