PrepTest 147, Section 2, Question 14
Best known for her work with lacquer, Eileen(460 more words not shown)
The passage most strongly suggests(16 more words not shown)
- AIt was considered(17 more words not shown)
- BHer involvement in(22 more words not shown)
- CThe public is(13 more words not shown)
- DIt has been(18 more words not shown)
- EUnlike her work(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The question narrows our focus to Gray's architecture. Her earlier work prepares for it, and she continues connecting expressive design with practical structure. But an inference about architecture can also depend on information elsewhere in the account; we don't need to confine our evidence to the final paragraph.
Working the answers
- A
Other architects' judgments are never reported. We cannot infer that they considered her designs unsound or iconoclastic merely because her approach was distinctive.
- B
The author describes continuity, not a radical reversal. Her lacquer work already balances aesthetic and structural demands, and that approach carries into architecture.
- CCorrect
The opening says she is most famous as a lacquer artist (paragraph 1). That supplies the comparison: her architecture is less well known than at least that part of her work. We don't need an explicit later sentence announcing that her buildings are unfamiliar.
- D
No comparison of controversy among recent critics or scholars is given. The author's appreciation doesn't tell us how those other people reacted.
- E
The absence of a separate statement about Asian influence on her architecture doesn't establish that there was none. We know Japanese lacquer influenced her, and the author connects that earlier work with her later approach. E asks for a definite exclusion the text doesn't support.
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