PrepTest 120, Section 2, Question 6
The Cultural Revolution of 1966 to 1976, initiated(454 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(10 more words not shown)
- A"Painting and Politics:(9 more words not shown)
- B"How Two Movements(7 more words not shown)
- C"Scarred Reality: A(10 more words not shown)
- D"The Rise of(6 more words not shown)
- E"The Unforeseen Artistic(5 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We've already predicted the main point: the Cultural Revolution's restrictions set off a chain of artistic reactions. Scar Art depicts harsh rural realities, and Native Soil turns toward an idealized rural past.
What we’re looking for
The title should capture that unexpected legacy. It shouldn't just name one movement or treat the paintings as a direct report on life in China.
Working the answers
- A
Politics matters, but this promises a broad survey of political influences. Our focus is the particular legacy of the Cultural Revolution and the artistic reactions it helped produce. A misses that organizing relationship.
- B
This reverses the direction. The Cultural Revolution affected the later movements; those movements didn't transform the Cultural Revolution.
- C
This makes rural life itself the subject. We are examining artistic movements and their approaches to depicting that life. It also misses the broader chain of reactions.
- D
Realism was already present, and Scar Art developed a different approach to it. But the focus isn't realism's growing prominence; it's the Cultural Revolution's restrictions and the varied reactions they produced. D misses that central relationship.
- ECorrect
“Unforeseen artistic legacy” captures the irony: policies that restricted artistic expression helped inspire varied movements in opposition to their constraints. That's the chain of consequences we predicted.
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