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PT118.S1.Q6

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PrepTest 118 - Section 1 - Question 6

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Maria: Conclusion Popular music is bad art because Support it greatly exaggerates the role love plays in everyday life and thereby Support fails to represent reality accurately.

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Speaker 1 Summary

Maria says that popular music is bad art. Why? Because it fails to represent reality accurately by greatly exaggerating the role love plays in everyday life.

Speaker 2 Summary

Theo says that popular music serves other artistic functions, and is not supposed to reflect reality. He thinks that Maria should understand popular music before criticizing it.

Objective

We need a statement that Maria and Theo disagree on. They disagree whether art needs to represent reality accurately to be considered good art. Maria thinks popular music is bad art because it does not represent reality. Theo thinks that art can perform other artistic functions while not accurately representing reality.

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most good art ███████ █████████ █████████

Neither speaker expresses an opinion on this statement. Maria limits her argument to popular music, and Theo broadly describes possible artistic functions. We don’t know what Maria or Theo believe about "most" good art.

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Theo does not express an opinion on this statement. We don’t know from the stimulus what Theo thinks bad art does, or even if Theo thinks that bad art exists.

art should always █████████ ███████ ██ ██ █████ ███ ███ ██ ██ ██

Neither speaker expresses an opinion on this statement. We don’t know what Maria or Theo think about the relationship between art and "reality as it could be." Theo also doesn't express an opinion about what art should do.

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Maria and Theo disagree on this statement. Maria disagrees: she concludes popular music is bad art for the sole reason that it does not accurately represent reality. Theo agrees: he says that there are other possible artistic purposes.

popular music should ███ ██ ██████████ ██ ██ ██ ███ ████

Neither speaker expresses an opinion on this statement. Even when Maria says that popular music is bad art, that does not mean that she thinks popular music should not be considered art at all.

Difficulty

Question

88% of people who answer get this correct

This is a slightly challenging question.

CURVE

Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right

25% 125

138

75% 152

Analysis

Question Stem Tags

Point at issue: disagree

Stems that ask us to identify a statement to which one speaker in the stimulus would say "Yes" and the other would say "No"

Stimulus Tags

Value judgment

Stimuli in which a jump from descriptive claims (i.e. "is" claims) to normative claims (i.e. "ought" claims) informs our evaluation of the answer choices.

Answer Popularity

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