Self-study
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Speaker 1 Summary
Tania concludes that a good art critic isn’t fair. This is because an unbiased (fair) critic needs to be uninterested in art, but good art criticism requires emotion (which Tania is implying requires interest in the art).
Speaker 2 Summary
Monique asserts that the best art critics shed all their biases before delivering their criticism. She acknowledges that art is a passion, but says it’s not only a passion.
Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. The speakers disagree over whether good art critics can be unbiased. Tania thinks they can’t. Monique thinks that can.
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The dialogue most strongly supports ███ █████ ████ █████ ███ ███████ ████████ █████ ███████
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art is not ██████ █ ███████
Tania doesn’t have an opinion. She says that art is a passion. But we don’t know whether she thinks it’s more than just a passion.
b
good art criticism ██ █████████ ████████
This is a point of disagreement. Tania thinks this is not possible, because good art criticism requires emotion, which she implies involves being interested in art. Monique thinks a good art critic can be unbiased.
c
art critics should ███ ████ ███████ ██████ ████████
Neither speaker has an opinion. Although both recognize that good art critics do feel passion toward art, we don’t know whether they think critics should or should not feel that passion.
d
fairness generally requires ██████████ ███ █████████ ██ ████
Neither speaker has an opinion. Although Tania discusses fairness in the context of art criticism, we don’t know what she thinks about fairness in other contexts. Similarly, Monique discusses unbiased criticism, but we don’t know what she thinks about fairness generally.
e
the passionate engagement ██ ███ ███ ██████ ████ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ████ █████████ ██████ ██ ███ █████████
Neither speaker has an opinion. We don’t know what either person thinks is the “most” important part of art criticism.