PrepTest 123, Section 3, Question 3
By Brandon Beaver | Published October 29, 2024
Type: Agree / Disagree
Difficulty:
Explanations
Carolyn says that this Sulston “portrait” isn’t a portrait because it doesn’t look like Sulston. Arnold disagrees, saying it’s a “maximally realistic portrait.” Arnold must thing it is a portrait. Arnold doesn’t go so far as “it looks just like Sulston,” but does explicitly disagree with Carolyn on her “this isn’t a portrait” conclusion.
A
Neither say it isn’t art.
B
Both agree it’s Quinn’s work.
C
No, Arnold doesn’t go so far as to say that it looks like Sulston.
D
Carolyn doesn’t say otherwise.
E
Yup, this is exactly what they are arguing about. Carolyn says it isn’t a portrait because it doesn’t look like him. Sulston says it is a portrait because it’s “maximally realistic” and “holds actual instructions” for how “Sulston was created.”
Passage
Carolyn: The artist Marc Quinn has displayed, behind a glass plate, biologically replicated fragments of Sir John Sulston's DNA, calling it a "conceptual portrait" of Sulston. But to be a portrait, something must bear a recognizable resemblance to its subject.
Arnold: I disagree. Quinn's conceptual portrait is a maximally realistic portrait, for it holds actual instructions according to which Sulston was created.
Question 3
The dialogue provides most support for the claim that Carolyn and Arnold disagree over whether the object described by Quinn as a conceptual portrait of Sir John Sulston
should be considered to be art
should be considered to be Quinn's work
bears a recognizable resemblance to Sulston
contains instructions according to which Sulston was created
is actually a portrait of Sulston