PrepTest 122, Section 3, Question 8
Through the last half century, the techniques used(467 more words not shown)
Based on the passage, the(23 more words not shown)
- AUnderstanding the nature(13 more words not shown)
- BSimilarities among African(17 more words not shown)
- CSome subtly distinguished(9 more words not shown)
- DIt is a(18 more words not shown)
- EThe tribal origin(8 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Which historians are we being asked about? The ones in the opening who have refined their methods for judging precise tribal origins from style. Their project treats tribal attribution as important. Keep their approach separate from the writer's later recommendation to reconsider it.
Working the answers
- A
This resembles the writer's advice at the end. It isn't a position attributed to the historians whose existing approach is being criticized.
- B
The specific explanation involving standard eye- and mouth-carving techniques isn't attributed to these historians. In the later example, eye patterns and mouth shape actually help distinguish client styles. B doesn't follow from the opening description of the historians' project.
- C
This also reflects the writer's challenge to increasingly fine tribal divisions. The historians described in the opening are refining those distinctions, not reported as rejecting them.
- D
We aren't told that those historians consider production for other tribes a recent development. The Konaté family's recent tourist trade is a separate matter from its long-standing work for neighboring groups.
- ECorrect
Their techniques aim to judge the “precise tribal origins” of sculptures. That effort supports the modest inference that tribal origin matters to how they classify the art.
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