PrepTest 101, Section 1, Question 24
A fake can be defined as an artwork(451 more words not shown)
The author provides at least(8 more words not shown)
- Acategories of art(8 more words not shown)
- Bcultures in which(5 more words not shown)
- Cqualities that art(6 more words not shown)
- Dcultures in which(8 more words not shown)
- Econtemporary artists whose(4 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This is an EXCEPT question: we want the category that has no example. Keep the actual material in view—the opening's borderline forms, historical collecting cultures, and the final masks. Four answers should connect to something in that material.
Working the answers
- A
The opening lists followers working in a master's style and “copying for pedagogical purposes” among the possibilities between the extremes. Examples are provided, so eliminate it.
- B
Imperial Rome and Renaissance Italy are examples of cultures where collecting encouraged faking. This category is covered.
- C
Collectors prize Greek origin, antiquity, and individual artistic identity. Those are examples of the qualities this answer asks for.
- D
The final paragraph introduces cultures where “authenticity is a foreign concept,” then discusses African art. That supplies this category, even though collectors apply their own functional standard and the writer questions whether the artists would agree.
- ECorrect
Michelangelo inspired imitators, but he isn't a contemporary artist—a modern artist around the time of this discussion. No such artist is offered as an example. “His contemporaries” means people living in Michelangelo's time; it doesn't make him contemporary in the sense used here.
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