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Given the amount of time and effort that curators, collectors, dealers, scholars, and critics spend on formulating judgments of taste in relation to oil paintings, it seems odd that so few are prepared to apply some of the same skills in exploring works of art that stimulate another sense altogether: that of smell. ███ ██ █████ ███████ ███ █████ ████ ██████████ █████ ███ █████████████ ███ ████ ███████ █████ ████ ████████ ██ ███████████ █████████████ ███ ██████ █ ████ ███ ██ ████ █ ██████████ █████████ ███ █████████ █████ █ ████ ██ ███ █████████ ███████ ██ ██████ ███ ████ ███ ███████ ███ ████ ███████████ ██ █████ █████████

Author's position · Perfume should be considered as art

Possibly the main point; this sounds like a conclusion that the author will the spend the rest of the passage supporting

Support author's position · Analogy between perfume and painting

Compares paint ingredients to perfume ingredients

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Describe process · Painting

Built up in layers, with end product changing over time. The author began this paragraph with a discussion of analogy, so expect the next paragraph to show how the process of perfume-making is analogous to this.

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Support author's position · Further analogy

Perfume-makers ("noses") choose different scent combinations (like different paints) to create certain moods; end product changes over time

Support author's position · More analogy

Perfumes have similar effects to paintings or music: they all create imaginary worlds and evoke memories

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Hypothesis · Why others don't consider perfume as art

Commercialization of perfume undermines its quality

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Author's perspective · Disapproves of commercialization of perfume

Passage Style

Phenomenon-hypothesis (RC)

Single position

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The author doesn’t suggest that the artistry of Joy Parfum is appreciated more as time goes on. There’s no comment on the relationship between increased appreciation and the passage of time.

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Supported. The author states in P3 that a great perfume can create at least an equally powerful artistic experience compared to other kinds of artworks. The author also believes that great perfume should be taken seriously, in the same way that other kinds of art are taken seriously.

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Too extreme to be supported. There’s no basis to think the author believes Joy Parfum is “the foremost accomplishment” of its time. It’s an example of a great perfume, but there may have been another perfume that was more impressive during its time.

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Not supported, because the author doesn’t suggest that “only” people with refined taste can appreciate Joy Parfum. Although the author does believe that more people should appreciate Joy Parfum than currently do, we have no basis to think the author believes there’s a strict limitation on the kind of person who appreciates the perfume.

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Not supported, because the author doesn’t compare the formula of Joy Parfum to other formulas of perfumes of the 1930s.

PrepTest 142 - Section 3 - Passage 1 - Question 5

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