PT155.S3.P1.Q1

PrepTest 155 - Section 3 - Passage 1 - Question 1

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The following passage is adapted from a 2001 article by a film historian.

P1

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Question · Which works of art should be shown together?
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Answer 1 · Group art according to artist
E.g. Rembrandt paintings
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Answer 2 · Group art according to theme/period
E.g., Modernist art
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Similarity · Both answers use common characteristics to group art togther
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Analogy · Film retrospectives are like art exhibits
Similar works of film are grouped by a common feature and screened together
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narrowing topic · Early nonfiction film retrospectives
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Main point / author's criticism · Early films shouldn't be grouped by similarity
Premise: such films were never originally shown this way
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Support criticism · Original format for screening films
Author gives more detail: instead of grouping similar films together, cinemas originally showed different films together in "mixed program"
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target of criticism · Film archives and retrospective festivals
Their priority is to showcase how films supposedly originally looked; author implies this shouldn't be sole priority
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support criticism · Authenticity in how films were originally grouped is important
Screening films in mixed-program format adds context and improves viewing experience
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clarify main point · Exhibition of early films shouldn't ignore the context in which they were originally viewed
Passage Style
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Screenings that consist ████████ ██ █████ ██████████ █████ ███ ██████ █████████ ███████ ████ ██████ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ██████ ████████ ██████████

This describes the author’s critique. It’s the overarching reason the author disagrees with the approach of “collecting the similar.”

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b

The practices that ███ ████ ██████ ██ ██████████ █████ ██ ██ ████████ ██████ ████ ████████ ███ ███ ████ ██████ ███ ██████████ █████████ ██████

The author doesn’t critique all practices that are best-suited to exhibiting paintings. In fact, we don’t know whether “collecting the similar” is even the best-suited choice for paintings. The author just says it’s what’s commonly done.

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c

Early nonfiction films ████ ███ ████████ ███ ████████ ███████████ ████ ████ ████████

The author doesn’t suggest these films are underrated. He just says they shouldn’t be exhibited one after the other.

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d

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Author doesn’t try to convince us of this difference, so it can’t be the main point.

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e

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The author doesn’t argue this. He argues that while archivists focus on authentic restorations, they lose sight of the context in which those films were actually viewed.

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