Rachel: Though contemporary artists are pleased to be free of the constraints that bound their predecessors, this freedom has caused a decline in the quality of art. Great art can be express themselves within externally imposed boundaries.
James: People have always been critical of the art of their own time. They forget all but the greatest art from past eras. Since inferior contemporary artworks have not yet been forgotten, people is generally inferior to earlier art.
What this question is testing
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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