PrepTest 131, Section 4, Question 18

Working the answers

• A

  Working in Paris helped him develop his ideas, but we aren't told that his work there solved problems other sculptors had tried and failed to solve. His later reflective portrait doesn't establish that earlier accomplishment.

• B

  We aren't told whether he had formal scientific training. Calling his outlook scientific doesn't establish that he developed it without training.

• C

  Brancusi's studio gave him the setting in which to consider reflection, and Fuller suggested the useful material. The specific realization about earlier sculptors' use of negative light occurred in Brancusi's studio, before Fuller entered the story. Nothing establishes that Fuller was more pivotal to that realization.

• D
  Correct

  The ending provides the strongest support. After winning recognition for his original conception, Noguchi moved to the “next phase of his evolution.” Combined with the opening description of his departures from established artistic paths, that shows an interest in exploring aesthetic questions rather than preserving one consistent style.

• E

  His scientific outlook matters to his art. But E also claims that his work shows the value of aesthetic approaches to scientific inquiry. We aren't shown him using artistic methods to do scientific research. That additional direction of influence isn't supported.