PrepTest 140, Section 4, Question 23
Physicists are often asked why the image of(441 more words not shown)
It can be inferred that(15 more words not shown)
- Asuccessful because it(9 more words not shown)
- Bsuccessful because it(6 more words not shown)
- Csuccessful because it(11 more words not shown)
- Dsuccessful only to(14 more words not shown)
- Esuccessful only to(15 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Keep the author's qualified assessment in view. The front-to-back explanation is appealing and works “to a point,” but it leaves out the observer's part in producing the appearance. Its intuitive success does not make it a complete explanation.
Working the answers
- A
The author does not reconcile apparently incompatible facts to defend this account. The criticism identifies a false premise about the reflected chair, not a set of facts whose reconciliation makes the explanation succeed.
- B
This reverses the third paragraph. Our reliance on mental constructs helps explain the account's appeal; the account does not succeed by rejecting them.
- C
Rotation of the field of sight belongs to the other explanation. The front-to-back account tries to describe what mirrors do without relying on the observer's action.
- D
The traditional desire to separate observer and phenomenon does help motivate the account. But consistency with that preference is not the stated reason its success is limited. The limitation is what that separation leaves out.
- ECorrect
The author says appearances cannot be adequately explained without considering what happens when we look into mirrors. The front-to-back account's attempt to omit that role is why its attractive picture falls short.
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