PrepTest 122, Section 3, Question 10
Through the last half century, the techniques used(467 more words not shown)
The author's primary purpose in(4 more words not shown)
- Aclassify a set(11 more words not shown)
- Bprovide evidence that(12 more words not shown)
- Cexplain the principles(13 more words not shown)
- Dreveal the underlying(14 more words not shown)
- Eargue that a(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Our main point gives us the purpose: challenge the attempt to assign sculptures to precise tribal origins through fine differences in style. The writer explains how centers serving several groups make that approach unreliable. We want the criticism being made, not merely the topic being described.
Working the answers
- A
The writer doesn't introduce a new classification scheme and sort works into its categories. The discussion questions the existing method.
- B
We aren't shown a particular set of objects, their supposedly assigned origins and proof that those assignments were wrong. The example exposes a problem with the method rather than documenting specific misclassifications.
- C
The historians' method is described so it can be challenged. Merely explaining their principles leaves out the writer's central criticism.
- D
The opening does identify an assumption: a style is confined to one tribe's area. But revealing that assumption is only a step in the argument. The rest explains why it is unreliable and why the approach should change.
- ECorrect
This captures that critical purpose. The approach assumes a close correspondence between fine stylistic differences and tribal origins, while the discussion shows artists working across those boundaries.
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