A writer between two countries

Answer Pulitzer

The recording says "the following year", and the summary says "a year later" — the same fact in different words, which is the whole technique of this question type. Two prizes are named in the talk, and this is the first.

Answer Literature

The second prize. The two are a sentence apart and the dates, 1932 and 1938, are the only thing separating them — which is why the summary prints the year for you.

Answer 40 (also accepted: forty)

The figure is given twice, once near the start and once near the end — "for nearly 40 years" and "after almost 40 years". A number repeated at both ends of a recording is one you are expected to get.

Answer workers

The same phrase is used later about the man she married, which is the trap: hearing "religious worker" and marking the wrong one of the two people it describes.

Answer philosophy

The subject, not the college. The college's name, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, is long and arrives immediately afterwards — long enough to make you miss that the answer has already gone past.

Answer agriculture

He is described as "a religious worker who studied agriculture", so both halves of the description are in the recording and only one answers the question. The gap follows "studied", which settles it.

Answer village

Said once, in passing, in a sentence whose main point is somewhere else. Section 4 hides answers inside sentences that are about something else — that is the difference between it and Section 1.

Answer land

The title of the book is The Good Earth, so "earth" sounds right and is wrong — the recording says they buy land. A word you expect before you hear it is the one to be most careful with.

Answer education

She told them two things, and this is the first. The second — that they needed to know more about other people around the world — follows straight after and is the distractor if you are a beat late.

Answer 80 (also accepted: eighty)

The last line of the recording, and the point at which most students have stopped listening. Both numbers are in the same short sentence: the year is printed for you, so the gap can only be the age.