PT156.S1.P2.Q13 > Analytics

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Passage A.

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Question · What public interest do tax-funded art subsidies serve?

If nothing, then art should be exclusively funded through the private sector.

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Conclusion · Public art subsidy is justified

Premise 1 · To ensure equitable access to arts

Private funding will not ensure equitable access

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Premise 2 · To build social capital

By creating opportunities for citizens to come together and thereby increase civic involvement

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Concession · Public art subsidy has incidental benefits

Premise · Justification requires showing direct benefit to taxpayers

Requires more people having more enjoyment

Premise · Unlikely to meet that requirement

Because the general public's taste in art won't be the same as the selection committees that distribute the funding.

Premise · Public good argument doesn't apply

Culture is not a public good

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Premise · Income argument fails

If the concern is income inequality, then fix that.

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Conclusion · Public art subsidies are unjustified

Passage Style

13.

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WSE (RC)

For this question, we only need to consider passage A. We’re looking for a scenario that would undermine author A’s claim that people who participate in arts and cultural events are more likely to engage in other civic activities. The correct answer should be a scenario that suggests that arts participation either has no effect on— or else has a negative effect on— some kind of civic engagement.

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This doesn’t mention civic engagement at all, so it can’t affect author A’s claim that participation in arts and cultural events increases civic engagement.

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This doesn’t mention civic engagement at all, so it can’t affect author A’s claim that participation in arts and cultural events increases civic engagement.

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This doesn’t mention arts participation or civic engagement at all, so it can’t affect author A’s claim that participation in arts and cultural events increases civic engagement.

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This supports author A’s claim that participation in arts and cultural events increases civic engagement. We need an answer choice that undermines her claim.

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This undermines the claim that arts participation increases civic engagement by showing that a publicly funded arts program had no effect on at least one area of civic engagement— voter turnout. We have to assume that the tax-funded arts program actually increased arts participation in the municipalities, but (E) still casts the most doubt on author A’s claim.

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