It's not possible to predict in what ways art may be useful.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Spotlight
26.
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Question Type
Implied
Other’s perspective
It’s difficult to predict the correct answer, because Dostoyevsky’s view of literature is described throughout the passage. Let’s just go to the answers.
a
Only works of ██████████ ████ ███ ████ ███████ ███ █████ █ ██████████ █████████ █████
Supported, because Dostoyevsky believed only fully realized artistic works could fulfill their goals. So if a writer has a goal of serving a political view, in order to successfully serve that view, the work must be artistic. Dostoyevsky considers “artistic” to mean well-written.
b
Only works of ██████████ ████ █████ █ ██████████ █████████ ████ ███ ██ ████ ██ ██ ████ ████████
Dostoyevsky disagrees. He doesn’t think a political purpose is necessary in order for a work to be artistic.
c
Works of literature ████ ███ ███ ████ ███████ ██████ ███████ ██ █████ █ ██████████ █████████ █████
A work of art could fail to be well written for other reasons. We have no reason to think Dostoyevsky believes all works that aren’t well written serve political views.
d
A work of ██████████ ████ ██ ████ ███████ ██████ █████ ███ ██████████ █████████ █████
Not supported, because Dostoyevsky doesn’t believe that all works that serve political views are not well written. Whether a work is well written depends on whether the writer has successfully expressed his thoughts in characters and images.
e
A work of ██████████ ████ ██████ █ ██████████ █████████ ████ ██████ ██ ████ ████████
Not supported, because Dostoyevsky doesn’t believe that all works that serve political views are not well written. Whether a work is well written depends on whether the writer has successfully expressed his thoughts in characters and images. (Notice that this is the contrapositive of (D). Since (D) and (E) mean the same thing, neither of them can be correct, because otherwise there would be two correct answers.)
Difficulty
57% of people who answer get this correct
This is a very difficult question.
It is slightly harder than the average question in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%151
162
75%173
Analysis
Implied
Other’s perspective
Art
Critique or debate
Spotlight
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
57%
167
b
3%
158
c
5%
158
d
15%
161
e
20%
163
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