PrepTest 103, Section 4, Question 10
James Porter (1905–1970) was the first scholar to(436 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(18 more words not shown)
- AIf completed, it(12 more words not shown)
- BIf completed, it(12 more words not shown)
- CIf completed, it(17 more words not shown)
- DIf completed, it(21 more words not shown)
- EIf completed, it(19 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The final sentence gives us the limits of what we know. Porter left extensive notes for a study of African art's influence on the Western world generally, and scholars still hadn't exhausted those notes. We don't have the finished study's conclusions, so we should be careful about predicting what it would have proved.
Working the answers
- A
Nothing says the new study would contradict his earlier conclusions.
- B
Nothing identifies a conclusion it would amend. The revisions to his earlier book are discussed separately; this unfinished project had a wider subject.
- C
Bringing a history up to date extends its timeline. Here the stated change is the range of art being investigated: beyond African American art to Western art generally.
- DCorrect
The earlier book traced “the history of African-American art”; the unfinished project explored African influence across Western art (paragraph 3). Studying that larger field would broaden the earlier inquiry.
- E
We aren't given these contemporaries' theories or told that Porter's research supported them. Unfinished notes containing useful research don't establish that particular result.
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