Question

PART B: Which TWO details from the text best support the answer to Part A?

A. "MTV struggled during its first few years. Conservative cable operators often refused to carry the channel." (Paragraph 7)
B. "'They thought that MTV was a bunch of coked-up rock and roll fiends, and they were right in a way,' Marks says." (Paragraph 8)
C. "The network came under fire for its lack of black artists, but executives worried that their viewers just wouldn't like Michael Jackson." (Paragraph 11)
D. "MTV's impact was immense during the 1980s. It made artists like Madonna and Guns N' Roses into stars." (Paragraph 14)
E. "The network began to back away from playing music videos in 1992, the year Marks and Tannenbaum chose to end their book." (Paragraph 14)
F. "That year also marked the debut of the first reality show, The Real World, which had a huge impact on the television industry." (Paragraph 17)

Answer 1

The two details from the text that best support the answer to Part A are:

B. "'They thought that MTV was a bunch of coked-up rock and roll fiends, and they were right in a way,' Marks says." (Paragraph 8)

D. "MTV's impact was immense during the 1980s. It made artists like Madonna and Guns N' Roses into stars." (Paragraph 14)

What are the supporting details?

In part A of the question, we are asked what the central claim of the passage is. The central claim of the passage is that MTV's evolution over the decades changed the way people perceived music and television.

Supporting facts include the thought that MTV was a bunch of coked-up rock and roll fiends, and the fact that MTV's impact was immense during the 1980s.