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Re: Nineteenth-century architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc [#permalink]
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Took me 8.30 min and I got all wrong
Although, I understood the passage and made proper notes with summary.
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Re: Nineteenth-century architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc [#permalink]
Can someone please explain Q22? - I read the official explanation but still a bit confused

I was wavering between B & E, ending up not choosing the correct answer E, going with B instead.

The explanation said:
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The passage also does not discuss any obstacles to resolving the controversy, any assumptions underlying the claims in the controversy, or any reasons why pertinent evidence may have been overlooked, so Choice B is incorrect


However, I found this in the passage "modifications and renovations complicate efforts to resolve this controversy." Is this not an obtacle? or if I have a wrong definition of obstacles?
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There is not a scientific and bullet proof strategy to have the main idea of the passage. It is NOT our elogic as in the inference questions. It is related to your feeling and the overall understanding of the passage as a whole. Basically, what is going on in there. Now

Nineteenth-century architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc contended that Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral, built primarily in the late twelfth century, was supported from the very beginning by a system of flying buttresses — a series of exterior arches (flyers) and their supports (buttresses) — which permitted the construction of taller vaulted buildings with slimmer walls and interior supports than had been possible previously.

Other commentators insist, however, that Notre-Dame did not have flying buttresses until the thirteenth or fourteenth century, when they were added to update the building aesthetically and correct its structural flaws. Although post-twelfth-century modifications and renovations complicate efforts to resolve this controversy — all pre-fifteenth-century flyers have been replaced, and the buttresses have been rebuilt and/or resurfacedit is nevertheless possible to tell that both the nave and the choir, the church’s two major parts, have always had flying buttresses. It is clear, now that nineteenth-century paint and plaster have been removed, that the nave’s lower buttresses date from the twelfth century. Moreover, the choir’s lower flyers have chevron (zigzag) decoration. Chevron decoration, which was characteristic of the second half of the twelfth century and was out of favor by the fourteenth century, is entirely absent from modifications to the building that can be dated with confidence to the thirteenth century.

From the portion above of the passage we do know for sure that the author stands on ONE side of the story because

1) we do have a shift in the passage with the word however
2) we do know for sure (it is possible) that the two major parts have always had buttresses.

C is the answer

PS: this question was on level 4 for sure
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Re: Nineteenth-century architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc [#permalink]
Can you explain Q24? I am unable to decipher the answer and words like "flyers" are confusing to me.
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The first thing to do is to understand clearly those pieces of information

1) exterior arches (flyers)

2) their supports (buttresses) these support the arches

So we do have the arches and their support.

3) the nave and the choir, the church’s two major parts,

4) the flying buttresses — a series of exterior arches (flyers) and their supports (buttresses) are simply the arches and other support combined

we have that the church in question - Notre Dame - has two major parts: the nave (which is the central part of the church itself) and the choir.

Now, the choir’s lower flyers are the arches of the choirs situated in the lowest part of the church itself, for instance at the entrance of the church


The question is

The author’s argument concerning Notre-Dame’s flying buttresses depends on which of the following assumptions about the choir’s lower flyers?

translated

The author's argument concerning the church's arches + their supports is based on which of the following assumption ??

we do have

it is nevertheless possible to tell that both the nave and the choir, the church’s two major parts, have always had flying buttresses

Even though we do have several stratifications of works and addition over the centuries we can still trace and pinpoint that the two major parts of the church had always flying buttresses + arches + their support

However, to do that even though the modifications over the centuries the original design must be recognizable yet

A is the answer


B They have a type of decoration used exclusively for exterior surfaces.

no mention of exclusiveness

C They were the models for the choir’s original upper flyers.

no mention that the upper part of the church modeled the bottom part

D They were the models for the nave’s original lower flyers.

neither this is mentioned or assumed

E They were constructed after the nave’s flyers were constructed.

completely wrong because this answer tells us that the arches were built after the supports. No sense
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Re: Nineteenth-century architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc [#permalink]
"A They accurately reproduce the decoration on the choir’s original lower flyers."

How are we establishing that the choir's lower flyers have been replaced?
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Clumpsome wrote:
"A They accurately reproduce the decoration on the choir’s original lower flyers."

How are we establishing that the choir's lower flyers have been replaced?


Please sir tell me what question or portion of the passage you need help

Difficult to pinpoint just from the excerpt above

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Option A which is the answer to 24 seems confusing. It makes a claim: A They accurately reproduce the decoration on the choir’s original lower flyers. This is throwing me off as the passage never specifically mentioned that the original lower flyers of the choir were ever replaced.
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Gotit. However, I extensively explained the question above https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/nineteent ... tml#p80586

Let me know what is still unclear sir
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Spent 5 min and all wrong
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where did you find major difficulties ?
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