Which of the following statements best summarizes the central thesis of the passage? correct answers C. Cézanne tried to solve the problem of interpretation by attempting to view the world objectively
The author establishes the central thesis in the first paragraph, citing the "single-minded de...
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Answers.
Which of the following statements best summarizes the central thesis of the passage? correct
answers C. Cézanne tried to solve the problem of interpretation by attempting to view the world
objectively
The author establishes the central thesis in the first paragraph, citing the "single-minded
determination of [Cézanne] to see the world objectively." The author devotes much of the
remainder of the passage to discussing how much of art previous to Cézanne represented an
interpretation of reality by bringing "extra-visual faculties" such as imagination and intellect into
play. Cézanne by seeing the world as object attempted to succeed in this "where [his
predecessors] had failed."
The author's assertion that Greek, Roman, and Renaissance art tried to represent the world
accurately is: correct answers B. Not supported by the evidence in the passage
The author asserts Greek and Roman art was "possessed of a desire to represent the world 'as it
really is'" without offering specific examples or discussion of exactly how Greek and Roman
artists attempted this.
By the end of the eighteenth century, the inscription on Poussin's second Arcadia painting was
translated as "Even in Arcady, there am I" only in England. In conjunction with passage
information, this fact most strongly implies that in comparison with other Europeans, the English
were: correct answers D. More influenced by the Guercino painting
Retention of the grammatical translation would indicate that the English were more influenced
by the Guercino painting because the translation relates directly to it: "When read according to
the rules of Latin grammar ('Even in Arcady, there am I'), the phrase had been consistent and
easily intelligible as long as the words could be attributed to a death's-head and as long as the
shepherds were suddenly and frighteningly interrupted in their walk. These conditions are
manifestly true of Guercino's painting. . . ."
According to the author, which details of Poussin's Louvre painting support the belief that it
reveals his decision to reject the moralizing tradition in art?
I. A classical tomb
II. A pagan river god
III. A symmetrical composition correct answers B. III only
The break with the medieval moralizing tradition, as described in the passage, can be seen in
how the symmetrical arrangement of the group of shepherds on either side of the tomb eliminates
the more dramatic portrayal of the shepherds entering from the left and being unexpectedly
accosted by the death's-head: "Instead of being checked in their progress by an unexpected and
terrifying phenomenon, they are absorbed in calm discussion and pensive contemplation."
, What is the significance to the passage argument of the information that the shepherds are
already at the tomb rather than approaching it? correct answers A. It shows that they are not
surprised by the reminder of death
The author describes the Louvre painting as follows: "Instead of two or three Arcadians
approaching from the left in a group, we have four, symmetrically arranged on either side of a
sepulchral monument. Instead of being checked in their progress by an unexpected and terrifying
phenomenon, they are absorbed in calm discussion and pensive contemplation." The author later
comments that they are engaged in contemplation of mortality rather than being surprised in a
dramatic encounter with the death's-head.
Which of the following statements, if true, would most weaken the author's reasoning about the
historical significance of the changes introduced in Poussin's second Arcadia painting? correct
answers D. Many of the Poussin's later paintings have strongly moralistic themes
If this were the case, the removal of the moralistic elements from the Poussin's Louvre painting
would be seen as an anomaly, not a major historical trend-setting change in Poussin's work or, as
the author puts it, "a radical break with the medival, moralizing tradition." In other words, this
"radical break," if it simply represented an anomaly rather than a major shift, would have less
historical significance than the author contends.
As used in the passage, the term elegiac is closest in meaning to: correct answers B. Serenely
reflective
The Arcadians in the second Poussin painting are characterized as being "absorbed in calm
discussion and pensive contemplation" and engaged in "a contemplative absorption in the idea of
mortality." These descriptions accord with the meaning of elegiac as a state of "serenely
reflective" mourning.
The passage suggests that the most favorable portrayal that Euripides gave of the Olympian gods
was to interpret them as: correct answers A. Psychological forces
In a period when obvious attacks on the Olympian gods might be severely punished, a writer
would have been foolish to denigrate them consistently. The passage author indicates that
Euripides's portrayal of the gods "(as in the Bacchae) as profound psychological forces" was
relatively favorable by contrasting it with his treatment of them elsewhere "as shady seducers or
discredited figures of fun".
Suppose it is discovered that a Stoic philosopher originated the traditional portrayal of the
Olympian god Zeus as the source of thunder. How would this information affect the author's
claims about the Stoics? correct answers A. It would support the claim that the Stoics
reinterpreted individual deities as explanations of natural phenomena
The discovery that Zeus was first portrayed as the source of thunder by a Stoic would imply that
the identification of a god with a force of nature accorded with the Stoic philosophy, supporting
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