PrepTest 107, Section 2, Question 5
For some years before the outbreak of World(434 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(8 more words not shown)
- AThe author describes(23 more words not shown)
- BThe author describes(26 more words not shown)
- CThe author describes(29 more words not shown)
- DThe author describes(24 more words not shown)
- EThe author describes(27 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
First we meet innovative painters and the idea that their work was prophetic. The second paragraph expands that interpretation. Then the writer rejects it in favor of crediting their artistic innovations, and the final example helps explain that rejection.
What we’re looking for
That's our rough map. The answer can describe it more abstractly, but it needs to keep track of which view the writer supports and which one the writer challenges.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The new styles are the artistic phenomenon. Prophecy is one interpretation; aesthetic innovation is the alternative. The discussion of the painters' aims and the Delacroix example support the alternative by giving us reasons to question the prophetic reading.
- B
We aren't told what caused the artistic phenomenon. The writer discusses how to interpret the work, not a sequence of its causes and consequences.
- C
This reverses the writer's position. The writer criticizes the prophetic interpretation; the criticisms aren't introduced and then dismissed. Calling that interpretation traditional is also unsupported.
- D
The writer doesn't reject both views. The view that gives credit to aesthetic innovation is the writer's own position, not a second discarded option.
- E
Neither the account of causes nor the recommendation to recreate the phenomenon appears. The ending challenges the prophetic interpretation; it doesn't call for another artistic movement.
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