PrepTest 155 - Section 3 - Passage 1 - Question 5

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

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Question · Which works of art should be shown together?

Answer 1 · Group art according to artist

E.g. Rembrandt paintings

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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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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The final sentence says that allegedly early film lovers shouldn’t ignore the insights of film presenters in from the early 20th century. What did those film presenters do? They mixed up the kinds of films they showed in a single sitting. So the author’s implying that film lovers nowadays should do the same thing when exhibiting films.

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Misdirection. Although the author uses the word “allegedly,” which calls into question the sincerity of such early film lovers, this isn’t the purpose of this sentence. The author is trying to drive home the point he’s trying to make throughout P3: film presenters in the early 20th century followed a certain format, and film exhibits shouldn’t ignore that format (shouldn’t “forsake” those presenters’ “insights”). The author’s implying that film exhibits should follow the same format that early film presenters used.

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The author is trying to drive home the point he’s trying to make throughout P3: film presenters in the early 20th century followed a certain format, and film exhibits shouldn’t ignore that format (shouldn’t “forsake” those presenters’ “insights”). The author’s implying that film exhibits should follow the same format that early film presenters used.

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This is what the author does in P2: he explains what was done. The final sentence of the passage, meanwhile, is about what the author thinks should be done now.

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The author never suggests that film lovers should find the earliest versions possible. His argument is that early nonfiction films should be exhibited alongside other kinds of early films. He’s not interested in how old the versions of those films happen to be.

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The author doesn’t challenge this notion. He argues that in order to better understand and appreciate early film, those films should be exhibited a certain way.

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