Section: Critical Reading Section 1

90) While George Balanchine’s choreography stayed within a classical context, he challenged convention by recombining ballet idioms in ____ ways.

1. unexpected
2. familiar
3. redundant
4. naive
5. awkward

While is our tip-off that this sentence will in some way contain a contrast. While George Balanchine’s choreography stayed within a classical context, he challenged convention by recombining ballet idioms. (If you don’t know exactly what this means, it doesn’t matter—you just need to grasp that this is how he challenged convention.) He’s challenging convention by recombining typical ballet moves or whatever in some ---- way. The word in the blank must mean something like unconventional. The best choice here is unexpected.