I took "the latter" to pertain to the order of the given types of sculptures (the new one mentioned in the question stem and the sculptures made by Noguchi and Brancusi)

Missing easy ones like this sting the worst. I feel like they are so easy to overthink.

That's the reasoning I initially used as well. The baseline they are using already accounts for the deaths. Any of those deaths that are replaced by people going back to work would result in a net positive increase in employment rate.

Speed will definitely come with time. Just trust that it will. Accuracy should come first.

SAME. Am going to read these question stems a little more closely from now on.

I think you are right to read the statement as "does not obtain that which would..." I think even better would be "does not obtain that which it would be expected..."I don't think the extra "would" or "it" are grammatically necessary, although they do make it much easier to follow.