Eileen Grey

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong9% picked this

   It was considered by other architects of her time to be iconoclastic and inconsistent with sound

   Too Strong: inconsistent Out of Scope: other architects The 3rd paragraph doesn't mention other architects or characterize Gray's work as being very atypical, against the grain, controversial, etc. Saying that her work was "inconsistent with sound principles of design" is like the harshest thing you could say to an architect. "You work contradicts basic principles of good design".

   9%
2. B

   Too Strong36% picked this

   Her involvement in it was marked by a radical shift in her attitude toward the relation between the expressive and

   Too Strong: radical shift Opposite, if anything The author seems to be stressing that Gray's work in architecture was consonant with her previous work; the previous work prefigured the architecture. Architecture for her was like work in lacquer. This answer is suggesting the opposite, saying Gray's work in architecture was a radical shift from what she was doing before.

   36%
3. C

   Correct39% picked this

   The public is less knowledgeable about it than about at least some of

   Why this is right

   This is supported by the very first line in the passage. Since Gray is "best known for her lacquer", then by definition the public is less knowledgeable about every other thing Gray ever did. If Gray once trained some meerkats to dance the Macarena, the public would still be less knowledgeable about that than about at least some of her other work, because some of her other work is lacquer, and that's how the public best knows her. It's an almost unthinkably obnoxious correct answer. The question stem sends us confidently to the 3rd paragraph. We would have no way of knowing that they planned to test some obscure phrasing from the very beginning of the passage. It's enough to make you want to slap the test in the face. We can use this horrid problem as a reminder that they are sometimes playing cutesy games with us, and we might have to search in unexpected places to find the available support for the correct answer.

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

   39%
4. D

   Out of Scope: critics and scholars2% picked this

   It has been less controversial among recent critics and scholars than has at least some of her

   Just like (A), this answer talks about how other people reacted to her architectural work. The passage didn't give us any indication about how critics or scholars viewed her architecture.

   2%
5. E

   Too Strong: no Asian influence15% picked this

   Unlike her work in lacquer, it was not influenced by an established tradition

   We don't have any text to support the idea that there was no Asian influence on her architecture. Just because it wasn't mentioned doesn't mean it wasn't an influence. And the fact that it says "architecture for her was like work in the (established Asian art tradition) of lacquer" opens the door for the idea that there was some Asian influence.

   15%