PrepTest 57, Section 2, Question 11

Difficulty:

Pat: E-mail fosters anonymity, which removes barriers to self-revelation. This promotes a degree of intimacy with strangers that would otherwise take years of direct personal contact to attain.

Amar: Frankness is not intimacy. Intimacy requires a real social bond, and social bonds cannot be formed without direct personal contact.

Pat: E-mail fosters anonymity, which removes barriers to self-revelation. This promotes a degree of intimacy with strangers that would otherwise take years of direct personal contact to attain.

Amar: Frankness is not intimacy. Intimacy requires a real social bond, and social bonds cannot be formed without direct personal contact.

Pat: E-mail fosters anonymity, which removes barriers to self-revelation. This promotes a degree of intimacy with strangers that would otherwise take years of direct personal contact to attain.

Question

The dialogue most strongly supports the claim that Pat and Amar disagree with each other about whether

barriers to self-revelation hinder the initial growth of intimacy

E-mail can increase intimacy between friends

intimacy between those who communicate with each other solely by e-mail is possible

real social bonds always lead to intimacy

the use of e-mail removes barriers to self-revelation

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