PrepTest 121, Section 3, Question 4
One of the intriguing questions considered by anthropologists(433 more words not shown)
The author mentions the relative(8 more words not shown)
- Astress the importance(24 more words not shown)
- Blay the groundwork(8 more words not shown)
- Csuggest that only(13 more words not shown)
- Dhelp explain why(6 more words not shown)
- Esupport the argument(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
My prediction is that the hard-to-reach location makes beauty alone an unlikely explanation. If the only purpose were visual enjoyment, an accessible, well-lit location would make more sense. This detail opens the question of what else the paintings were meant to do.
Working the answers
- A
The effort involved might make us wonder how much the artists cared, but that's not the argument being made. The writer uses the location to question the paintings' purpose, not to measure their importance in the artists' lives.
- BCorrect
This is broader than my initial prediction, but it fits. Challenging aesthetic enjoyment as the sole purpose prepares us for the fuller hunting-and-ritual explanation in the next paragraph. That's how the detail lays groundwork.
- C
Difficulty reaching a place doesn't establish a rule about who was permitted to enter. No restriction to a selected part of the community is stated.
- D
The writer doesn't use the location to explain preservation. A possible connection we can imagine isn't the function of the detail here.
- E
The quality of the paintings supports the inference about skilled specialists. Their inaccessibility does a different job: it prompts a reconsideration of why the images were made.
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