LSAT 142 – Section 1 – Question 02

LSAT 142 - Section 1 - Question 02

December 2014

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A
1%
156
B
3%
159
C
88%
164
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3%
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E
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Archaeologist: How did the Parthenon’s stonemasons manage to carve columns that all bulged outward in the center in precisely the same way? One hypothesis is suggested by the discovery of a scale drawing of a column etched into the stone of a Greek temple at Didyma. The drawing is a profile view of a column surrounded by a grid, which makes it possible to determine the correct width at every height of the column. The stonemasons who carved the Parthenon’s columns may have relied on a drawing like the one at Didyma.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that the stonemasons who made the Parthenon’s columns may have relied on a scale drawing of a column. This is because a scale drawing of a column for the temple at Didyma was discovered, and this drawing made it possible to determine the correct width at every height of column, which is something that we observe in the columns of the Parthenon.

Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that the stonemasons who made the Parthenon used methods that were similar in at least some ways to the methods used by the stonemasons who made the temple at Didyma. The author also assumes that there was nothing about the columns at the Parthenon that could have prevented scale drawings from being useful in making the columns.

A
Modern attempts to recreate columns like those at the Parthenon have only been partially successful.
Whether later attempts have been successful doesn’t shed light on what the original stonemasons used to make the columns.
B
The construction of the temple at Didyma was begun over a century after the Parthenon was constructed.
This just points out a difference between the Parthenon and the temple at Didyma. It opens the possibility that scale drawings may not have been around when the Parthenon was created, but only came about later.
C
Scale drawings were commonly used in many types of construction in ancient Greece.
This strengthens the author’s conclusion by making it more plausible that scale drawings were used for the Parthenon. It establishes that the scale drawings used for the temple at Didyma were not just a rare, unique method.
D
The surviving columns at Didyma are almost twice as tall as the columns at the Parthenon.
The relative height of the columns doesn’t shed light on what the stonemasons who made the Parthenon used.
E
The Parthenon’s stonemasons had considerable experience carving columns before they started work on the Parthenon.
The level of experience of the stonemasons doesn’t have any clear impact on whether they used scale drawings or not.

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