LSAT 148 – Section 4 – Question 13

LSAT 148 - Section 4 - Question 13

December 2016

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT148 S4 Q13
+LR
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
A
78%
163
B
1%
151
C
0%
150
D
20%
161
E
0%
151
120
136
158
 +Easier 147.694 +SubsectionMedium

The Frauenkirche in Dresden, a historic church destroyed by bombing in World War II, has been reconstructed to serve as a place for church services and cultural events. The foundation doing the reconstruction took extraordinary care to return the church to its original form. It is a puzzle, then, why the foundation chose not to rebuild the eighteenth-century baroque organ originally designed for the church and instead built a modern organ, even though a donor had offered to pay the full cost of rebuilding the original.

"Surprising" Phenomenon
Why did the foundation that reconstructed the Frauenkirche church decide not to rebuild the original organ when they otherwise took extraordinary care to return the church to its original form?

Objective
The right answer will describe a key difference in either the process of rebuilding the modern organ and the original organ, or else the end results of the same. That difference will shed light on either a benefit of the more modern organ or a drawback of the original organ which outweighed the foundation’s desire to remain true to the original church through the reconstruction.

A
An eighteenth-century baroque organ cannot adequately produce much of the organ music now played in church services and concerts.
This is a significant drawback of the eighteenth-century baroque organ that explains why the foundation opted for a newer model: the original organ would have been unable to adequately produce much of the music needed for modern church services and concerts!
B
The organ originally designed for the church had some features that modern organs lack.
This doesn’t matter to us, and we probably already assumed that an organ made 200 years ago was different from a modern one! We don’t know if the features on the original organ were good or bad, so we can’t determine if this is a benefit to, or drawback of, the original.
C
The donation for rebuilding the original eighteenth-century baroque organ was designated for that purpose alone.
This is the opposite of helpful. If the donation hadn’t been designated solely for rebuilding the organ, the foundation might’ve opted to build the cheaper, modern organ so they could use the excess funds for other work. This answer choice takes away that possible explanation.
D
By the time the church was destroyed in World War II, the eighteenth-century baroque organ had been modified several times.
This doesn’t matter. We don’t care about the history of the original organ, we just want to know why the foundation decided not to rebuild it in any of its forms, modified or not.
E
In the eighteenth century, the organ played an important role in church services at the Frauenkirche.
This doesn’t matter. We don’t care how important the original organ was in church services, we just want to know why the foundation decided not to rebuild it.

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