# PT155.S3.P1.Q7

## PrepTest 155 - Section 3 - Passage 1 - Question 7

_The following passage is adapted from a 2001 article by a film historian._

### P1

**Question:** Which works of art should be shown together?

**Answer 1:** Group art according to artist  
E.g. Rembrandt paintings

**Answer 2:** Group art according to theme/period  
E.g., Modernist art

**Similarity:** Both answers use common characteristics to group art together

**Analogy:** Film retrospectives are like art exhibits. Similar works of film are grouped by a common feature and screened together

**Narrowing topic:** Early nonfiction film retrospectives

### P2

**Main point / author's criticism:** Early films shouldn't be grouped by similarity  
**Premise:** such films were never originally shown this way

**Support criticism:** Original format for screening films  
Author gives more detail: instead of grouping similar films together, cinemas originally showed different films together in "mixed program"

### P3

**Target of criticism:** Film archives and retrospective festivals  
Their priority is to showcase how films supposedly originally looked; author implies this shouldn't be sole priority

**Support criticism:** Authenticity in how films were originally grouped is important  
Screening films in mixed-program format adds context and improves viewing experience

**Clarify main point:** Exhibition of early films shouldn't ignore the context in which they were originally viewed

### Passage Style

- Problem-analysis  
- Single position

### Question Type

**Author’s perspective:** Implied  
**The author says these cuts are presented as "authentic" because they’re accurate restorations of the films themselves. But he thinks that when talking about authenticity, we need to consider not just the films themselves, but the context in which they were watched. He’s concerned about how that context often gets ignored.**

### Analysis

**Difficulty:** 48% of people who answer get this correct

**This is a very difficult question.**  
**It is significantly harder than the average question in this passage.**

### Answer Popularity

| Answer | Popularity | Avg. score |
|--------|------------|------------|
| a      | 2%         | 155        |
| b      | 2%         | 156        |
| c      | 46%        | 158        |
| d      | 48%        | 164        |
| e      | 2%         | 153        |

### Tags

- Art  
- Problem-analysis  
- Single position