Fake Artwork

Answer choices

1. A

   Out of Scope9% picked this

   reconciling varied points of

   Out of Scope: varied points of view This feels off, since we're looking for something like "presenting Mark Jones's book". Are their varied points of view in the passage? The passage is presenting Mark Jones's views, as they are outlined in his new book. There are varied perspectives on what it means to be real vs. fake, coming from different cultures and eras. We could call those varied points of view, but the author isn't trying to reconcile them. The author is presenting them to showcase their myriad variety. The fascination of the book is that faking takes on so many different forms, not that all the forms can be reconciled.

   9%
2. B

   Too Narrow: chronicling evolution27% picked this

   chronicling the evolution of a

   This passage is describing the ideas inside Mark Jones's new book. Can we say that Mark Jones was "chronicling the evolution of Fake" within his book? Yes, somewhat. The "greater part" of the book was "devoted to a chronological survey" of different concepts of fake. But the final paragraph has nothing to do with chronology or evolution. It's just talking about cultural distinctions. Also, this answer is closer to describing what Mark Jones did in his book than it is to describing the author's presentation of Mark Jones's book.

   27%
3. C

   Correct61% picked this

   exploring a complex

   Why this is right

   This does a better job than (B) of describing the author's presentation of Mark Jones's book. Both Jones's book and the author's treatment of the book seem to adopt a tone of fascination about how complex the concept of "fake" is. There seems to be a wide ranging spectrum of degrees between fake and authentic, and different cultures use the concept of fake vs. authentic for very different purposes. If we were wrestling with (B) vs. (C) and consulted the 2nd sentence of the passage (where the author frames the discussion of this book), there is more language to reinforce "exploring a complex question" than there is to reinforce "telling the story of how a concept evolved".

   Skill tested: Primary Purpose · how this choice captures the passage's function is the move to repeat next time.

   61%
4. D

   Out of Scope: advocating1% picked this

   advocating a new

   The author is just presenting Jones's new book, not advocating anything on its behalf. And even Jones was not advocating any new approach within his book.

   1%
5. E

   Out of Scope: rejecting explanation1% picked this

   rejecting an inadequate

   The author is presenting and implicitly endorsing Jones's new book. Neither the author nor Jones are rejecting an inadequate explanation. This answer seems to be playing off the trap of "Last Thing We Heard". The final sentence involves the author speculating whether the Bambaran artists would reject an explanation as inadequate.

   1%