PrepTest 156, Section 1, Question 10
Passage A What public interest is served by(488 more words not shown)
Passage A(241 more words not shown)
Passage B(255 more words not shown)
It can be inferred that(15 more words not shown)
- AThey promote important(11 more words not shown)
- BThey are not(9 more words not shown)
- CThey are not(10 more words not shown)
- DThey condescend to(7 more words not shown)
- EThey reduce the(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
B's objection is not simply that art costs money. The government chooses cultural experiences on people's behalf, even though they are capable of choosing for themselves. The closing demand to recognize each person's equal standing and capacity to choose (Passage B, paragraph 3) gives us a clear direction: selecting for them can treat their own judgment as less worthy.
Working the answers
- A
Community engagement is central to A's defense. B concedes incidental benefits such as tourism, but does not endorse important policy objectives as an achievement of these subsidies.
- B
B does not compare the effectiveness of public and private subsidies at spreading culture evenly. Buying your own art is private spending, not necessarily a subsidy, and B's central objection concerns who chooses, not which funding arrangement distributes culture more efficiently.
- C
A cares about equitable access. B does not make equal availability a necessary condition for justifying subsidies. Its discussion of defense distinguishes a shared public good from an individually purchasable experience; it doesn't announce this equal-access rule.
- DCorrect
B says it is wrong for government to choose the art people should have and insists that people are capable of making their own choices. “Condescend” captures the objection: the government acts as though it knows better than the individuals whose preferences it replaces.
- E
Spending on art could leave less money for other programs, but B does not argue that those programs are more important. A plausible budget argument is still not this writer's argument.
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