RC Question 11 Explanation
DISCUSSION: On this type of question, you’ll literally be able to point to lines which answer the question in the answer choice. Don’t work hard to try to help make a wrong answer right by interpreting it weirdly. Instead, use the passage to confirm your choice.
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- The passage doesn’t say. It’s only reference on this point is in line 11, saying that lacquer was “then little known in Europe.”
- The passage never mentions wood types.
- CORRECT. Lines 15-17 give us the answer to this: Art Nouveau and Lacquer were not similar.
- This is an interesting question, but the passage never addresses it. (The answer is probably yes, since Gray was holistic. But the passage doesn’t give us a direct answer.)
- Not mentioned. We don’t know why she used tubular steel, for example. And with lacquer, wood was more or less the only choice – so that’s not really a choice at all.
I disagree with your reason to reject E. We do know why she used tubular steel (lines 37-39). She used steel to create furniture that was visually austere and met the occupants needs.
Certainly. But why was steel the material which made that possible? We know nothing of its properties. That is what I meant: they could have said leather or copper or wood and the sentence would be the same. It tells us nothing about steel itself.
Note: This is an old comment but I wanted to clarify the point.