First of all, my great respect to Carcass for doing a wonderful job. He indeed is a great asset to those trying to crack the GRE.
It seems, this is not the official question. Rather, it is derived from an official question first appeared on the BigBook (Q3, page 491, Big Book Old GRE).
Here is the link:
Following adapted to SE format.
[I have noticed that I cannot link to the other GREClub posts till I have 10 posts. I will come here later and make the link]
This question primarily tests 3 things
i) the usage of colon ( : )
ii) how the parallel structure " the more X, more the Y " operates
iii) Analogical Thinking.
Analogies attempt to state the relationship between two things.
In the old GRE, analogies were tested explicity. Now the analogies are tested implicitly as is the case in the questions under discussion.
Here the "mind of the bigot" is being made analogous to the "pupil".
The problem is, the working of pupil when light "pours" on it is more specialized knowledge as compared to the analogous relationship established in the official question reproduced here for everyone's convenience:
A misconception frequently held by novice writers is that sentence structure mirrors thought: the more convoluted the structure, the more (i) _______ the ideas.
The analogous relationship depicted in the original question is very simple to decode.
However, the analogous relationship in this post's question requires specialized knowledge of the working of pupil. And the contextual cues mentioned in the sentence are not enough.
Therefore, I will dismiss this question.
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