Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT109 S3 Q6 Explanation

The recent cleaning of frescoes

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Stimulus

The recent cleaning of frescoes in the Sistine Chapel has raised important asthetic issues. Art historians are now acutely aware that the colors of the works they study may differ from the works’ original colors. Art historians have concluded from this that before the frescoes’ restoration may no longer be appropriate.

What this question is testing

Principle-Strengthen

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
6.

Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the

Answer choices

  1. Trap3% picked this

    The appropriateness of an interpretation of an artwork is relative to the general history of the period in

  2. Trap10% picked this

    The restoration of an artwork may alter it such that it will have colors that the artist did not

  3. Correct82% picked this

    The colors of an artwork are relevant to an appropriate interpretation

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

    Skill tested: Principle-Strengthen · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

  4. Trap0% picked this

    Art historians are the best judges of the value of

  5. Trap4% picked this

    Interpretations of an artwork are appropriate if they originated during the period when the

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