PrepTest 111, Section 2, Question 13
The paintings of Romare Bearden (1914–1988) represent a(439 more words not shown)
According to the passage, human(10 more words not shown)
- Aserve as particular(4 more words not shown)
- Bsuggest circumstances outside(6 more words not shown)
- Cfunction as aspects(4 more words not shown)
- Dsymbolize emotions or(2 more words not shown)
- Einhabit abstract but(3 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We need one role the human figures aren't described as playing. Paragraph three is the place to check: Bearden paints unemployed people, places figures in abstract urban settings, and uses them to express a social reality beyond the canvas. Let's keep each answer attached to what is actually said about those figures.
Working the answers
- A
They do exemplify hardship. It would be overthinking to demand another sentence announcing that an unemployed person is a particular instance of suffering. That's the connection the surrounding account gives us.
- B
They do suggest circumstances beyond the scene itself. The figures express the wider social conditions beyond the pictured scene (paragraph 3). A person shown in a painting can suggest the larger conditions affecting that person's life.
- C
They remain “elements in an artistic composition.” Their social meaning doesn't prevent them from functioning within the painting's design.
- DCorrect
That is the colors' job. The next sentences describe muted blues and purples suggesting melancholy or despair and symbolizing psychological effects. We aren't given that function for the human figures. It's a familiar idea from the right paragraph, but attached to the wrong element of the paintings.
- E
The settings are “abstract yet mysteriously familiar.” Recognizable restates familiar; the surroundings can be abstract without becoming completely unrecognizable.
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