TEAS Reading Comprehension Practice Test 3

If the movie had brought the characters in the novel to a sharper focus, those characters must have been portrayed with less sharpness in the novel. Among the choices, it, is “stereotypes” and “blurs” which have this meaning. But“stereotypes” cannot be described as excellence of a novel. So, “excellencies” can also be ruled out. The pair “shortcomings; blur” completes a meaningful sentence, and is the answer.