Film historians often find

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong2% picked this

   Newspaper and magazine reviews of films are usually written in advance of a

   Too Strong: usually Out of Scope: in advance It's definitely supported that newspaper and magazine reviews didn't reveal typical audience reactions, but that doesn't mean it's because they were usually written in advance. Maybe they were usually written once the film had been released, but the opinion of a movie reviewer just isn't influenced by or representative of the typical audience opinion.

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2. B

   Out of Scope1% picked this

   Typical audience members' responses to films from the latter part of the twentieth century are

   Out of Scope: late 20th century Too Strong: easy The passage stressed that films from the early 20th century were especially difficult, but that can mean that films from the latter half of the 20th century were just regular ol' difficult. We can't categorically say that typical audience reactions to every film from 1950-2000 is easy to determine.

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3. C

   That vs. What30% picked this

   The box office success of a film does not depend on its viewers finding it

   It doesn't get any more lawyerly that parsing between the meaning of these two ideas: 1. Box office success doesn't show that audiences found it funny, frightening, or moving 2. Box office success doesn't show what audiences found it funny, frightening, or moving This answer choice is talking about #1. We can't derive that from the passage. It may be true that the box office success of a film, its financial success, convinces us that audiences did find that film funny, or frightening, or moving. (i.e. it must have stirred some sort of emotion if that many people came to see it) But the passage only talked about #2. We might know that a film was massively popular, but not know why. When we're talking about trying to ascertain typical audience responses, it would be granular stuff like "What parts of the film were funny to them? What was frightening? What was moving?" The box office success may depend on a movie fulfilling at least one of those categories (funny / frightening / moving), but that wouldn't instruct historians about which specific parts of the movie typical audiences found funny, scary, or moving.

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4. D

   Correct66% picked this

   Film historians do not believe that film reviews in newspapers and magazines reveal typical film

   Why this is right

   Suppose we say that "Ben is finding it difficult to find the recipe for his mom's old fudge recipe. His sister Grace failed to provide much insight". We could infer that "Ben does not believe that Grace has adequately conveyed to him his mom's old fudge recipe". That's all we're doing to derive this answer: Film historians can't figure out typical audience members' responses. Newspaper and magazines fail to provide much insight. So, newspaper and magazines to not adequately convey typical audience members' responses.

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

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5. E

   Too Strong: usually not reviewed1% picked this

   Films from the early part of the twentieth century were not usually reviewed in

   This is just like choice (A), speculating a reason why newspapers and magazines failed to provide much insight into typical audience reactions. (A) said, "It's cuz the reviews come out before the film is released." (E) says, "It's cuz most films weren't reviewed in newspapers or magazines." We don't know if either of those are the reason why. It could be that films were always reviewed, after the film had been released, and historians just don't think that the review of a critic is representative of the typical audience members' reactions.

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