PrepTest 142, Section 3, Question 4
Given the amount of time and effort that(448 more words not shown)
The passage provides the most(10 more words not shown)
- AA work of(13 more words not shown)
- BIn any work(12 more words not shown)
- CA work of(14 more words not shown)
- DThe best works(5 more words not shown)
- ESome forms of(5 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Think back to the third paragraph's explanation of perfume's artistic power. A scent can create an imaginary world and call up a childhood memory or a long-forgotten experience. That gives us something concrete about what art can do.
What we’re looking for
We should keep the claim at that level. Showing one way an artwork can affect us does not establish a requirement for every artwork or a ranking of entire art forms.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The author connects the memories a perfume evokes with its power to create an intimate artistic experience. That supports the modest claim that a work of art can produce an aesthetic experience through memory. It doesn't require every artwork to do so.
- B
The author doesn't extend this description to every work of art. Even perfume's combinations can be “discordant,” so harmonious is not an accurate requirement for all the effects described.
- C
Criticizing cost cutting that reduces quality doesn't establish that commercial motivation inevitably makes art fail. Perfume can be bought and sold and still qualify as art. This turns a specific criticism into an absolute rule.
- D
Paintings and perfumes change over time, but change isn't necessarily improvement. We aren't told the best works become better with age.
- E
The argument asks readers to give perfume the respect accorded other arts. It doesn't establish that some forms are superior to others. A directly stated artistic capacity gives us firmer support than an invented hierarchy.
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