PrepTest 155, Section 3, Question 6

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Working the answers

• A

  This compares exhibitions by one artist with exhibitions by several artists generally. The author criticizes a particular use of similar early films, while accepting a Rembrandt exhibition as reasonable. That doesn't establish that single-artist exhibitions tend to be less interesting across the board.

• B
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  The contrast between a dull sequence of similar films and a varied program shows how works affect one another in a viewer's experience. The final paragraph makes that interaction explicit: films could complement and provide contrast with films of different types (paragraph 3).

• C

  The author values the programming insight that may have come from vaudeville. The complaint is that modern presenters abandon it, not that they are too attached to it.

• D

  Watching different genres in one sitting doesn't mean failing to recognize their differences. Audiences could know perfectly well that a nonfiction film differed from a comedy while seeing both in the same program.

• E

  This guarantees misunderstanding outside an authentic setting. The author doesn't go that far and even says grouping similar films can be useful for historians and academics. A compromised viewing experience isn't proof that those viewers cannot understand the work.