Q8

[jennifer]

8. What is wrong with answer choice c?

13. Why is C the better answer choice verses E?

Thank you

[giladedelman]

Thanks for posting!

First, number 8:

The art historians mentioned in line 2 are the ones who have greatly refined their techniques for judging the tribal origins of African sculpture based on style. We're asked to pick the statement with which these historians would most likely agree.

(E) is correct because if these historians have been refining their techniques for determining the tribal origins of African sculpture, we can safely infer that they think this determination is important.

(C) is incorrect because it's a contradictory interpretation. It's not the historians who would agree with this statement, it's the author, who's saying that the historians should change break habit. Check out lines 50-55 to see what I mean.

Now for number 13:

(E) is incorrect because the passage never indicates that artists "migrate in" to the centers of style. Further, this answer choice makes no mention of the important fact that the artistic styles developed in the centers are distributed into a wider area.

(C), on the other hand, accurately identifies the centers of style as places where generally consistent art work is produced and then diffused to the surrounding areas.

Does that clear these up for you?

[rbolden]

Can you also explain why D is an incorrect answer choice?

[lhermary]

Help please.

How on earth is E right here? All they are saying is limiting a style to a particular area is oversimplified. E almost sounds like it is saying the opposite. I picked A which seems to line up to the quotes reasoning.

[jimmy902o]

Help please.

How on earth is E right here? All they are saying is limiting a style to a particular area is oversimplified. E almost sounds like it is saying the opposite. I picked A which seems to line up to the quotes reasoning.

Just went over this question myself. The mistake I believe that you are making is that your answering the question from the wrong point of view. A would be correct if the question asked for authors opinion who is in favor of "centers of style" and broadly defined contexts, however it is not. It is asking about the art historians whose criticism the author is trying to refute. The historians favor a narrowly refined view which is on par with E and the opposite of A. Hope that helps

[judaydaday]

Is (D) incorrect because these art historians view regarding this practice (the concept of centers of style) is never mentioned? For some reason I think I solved this question like a strengthen question.

[maryadkins]

I'm with you on that. We don't know how the art historians mentioned in Line 2 feel about (D). We also, incidentally, are told that the tradition of making ethnic masks for other ethnic groups is a "long tradition" (line 31), contradicting (D)'s statement that it is a recent practice.

As for (A) and (B), we also don't know the art historians opinions on those either.