The Frauenkirche in Dresden

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct82% picked this

   An eighteenth-century baroque organ cannot adequately produce much of the organ music now played in

   Why this is right

   This gives us a strong reason why we can't use the 18th century one, and why we'd rather have the modern organ. This reconstructed church is being reconstructed "to serve as a place for church services and cultural events". If those church services and cultural events are going to be able to make use of this bad-ass in house organ, then it needs to be the modern style organ. The 18th century style can't adequately produce much of the music that would get played at today's church services and concerts. (Maybe the old organ only has 40 keys, or maybe it doesn't have foot pedals for bass notes, or it doesn't have vibrato, who knows) The idea is that building an old-school organ would mean it's just decorative, not useful. They want to return the church to its original form as much as possible but still have it be a functional church, and today's church music needs at least six octaves, baby!

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

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2. B

   Deepens Paradox2% picked this

   The organ originally designed for the church had some features that

   This makes the old organ sound like a better choice and the new organ sound like the worse choice. That's the opposite of what we want.

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3. C

   No Impact1% picked this

   The donation for rebuilding the original eighteenth-century baroque organ was designated for

   We wouldn't really care if the donation had been designated for multiple purposes. The fact would remain that a donor was willing to pay for the old organ, so cost wasn't the issue. If anything, though, saying that this donation was only being offered for the organ shuts down the possibility that they decided against rebuilding the classic organ in order to funnel that donation money toward some more desired part of the reconstruction projects. So it would rule out a possible explanation for why they didn't rebuild the old organ (it wasn't because they wanted to use that donation money elsewhere).

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4. D

   No Impact15% picked this

   By the time the church was destroyed in World War II, the eighteenth-century baroque organ had

   If the goal were to reconstruct the church in its original form, then you would presumably want the original organ, before the modifications. Even if your goal were to reconstruct the church in its original form but replicate the old organ in its final WWII form, that would still mean replicating an organ from 1942, not a modern organ.

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5. E

   No Impact0% picked this

   In the eighteenth century, the organ played an important role in church services

   No one's debating whether or not they should have an organ. We don't need an explanation for why a church might want an organ. We want to know why they went with the modern organ rather than the original 18th century organ, and this answer isn't speaking to anything that helps us distinguish between those two options.

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