LSAT 101 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q23

RC Question 23 Explanation

DISCUSSION: Lines 8-11 describe a grey zone of techniques that don’t produce original art but don’t produce fakes either.

All the wrong answers take techniques from this grey zone.

(Lines 8-11 use complicated words that can make the wrong answers slightly hard to identify.)

Meanwhile, forgery is defined in the first sentence: art intended to deceive (lines 1-2).

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1. Line 10 mentions this as being in a grey zone. “Pedagogical” means teaching, i.e. lessons from a mentor.
2. Same as A. Line 10 mentions that copying for a pedagogical (“learning”) purpose is in a grey zone.
3. CORRECT. The very first sentence of the passage says this.
4. This describes a “commercial facsimile” (line 11). Facsimile means copy.
5. Line 10. This describes a “deliberate anachronism”. To create an anachronism is to reproduce something that is too old for the era.
    
   So a pocket-watch or a copy of the Mona Lisa is an anachronism: both belong to earlier eras.