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MCAT CARS Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
Question: What does empathetic mean?
Answer: To be understanding or sensitive to the feelings, thoughts, and
experiences of others.
Question:
What is proponent?
Answer: Advocate or agree with
Question:
If the claims made in the passage are correct, how would politicians on the
political right be expected to react to America's program to protect
endangered species from extinction?
Answer: Me: Failed to choose the authors negative tone
Authors says the right hates government interference so they would hate and
criticize. I had the right answer at first but read that the program had little cost
so I assumed they couldn't criticize it.
Lesson: choose BASED on authors tone. The criticize the authors main idea
Question:
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To which of the following hypothetical Congressional actions would the
author probably lend the most support, based on the information in the
passage?
Answer: Missed the passage information that companies did voluntary choice
in regard to stop pollution
I did not know the answer automatically
Question:
Suppose researchers discovered the manuscript for an 1841 musical theater
act to be preformed on Mississippi River steamboats....
Answer: Strengthen because Musical originated from London that author
mentioned
I did not know the answer automatically
Question:
Which of the following questions are answered?
Answer: choose answers that are evidenced in the passage
Question:
Which would weaken the author's argument?
Answer: expand upon reasoning in the text
usually points that contradict the main idea
Question:
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Character Development
Answer: Make up a word that characterize the people in the passage and put
it against each answer choice
Question:
Main Idea
Answer: Is the author an unbiased writer or do they feel strongly on the topic
they are writing about?
What is the author's purpose in writing this piece?
Are they aiming to persuade readers or simply inform them of the facts?
Question:
The author's suggestion that reality in art before Cézanne had been a "will-o'-
the-wisp" can most reasonably be interpreted to mean that artists before
Cézanne had not:
A. attempted to imitate reality faithfully.
B. agreed about the value of Impressionism.
C. been able to perceive reality.
D. found a way to depict reality effectively.
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Answer: I choose C.
- C is wrong because they didn't have a problem with perception but with
application.
D is the correct answer.
- the author mentions "perspective does not give us any glimpse of the
reality.". So perception is present but it is not being used effectively.
Question:
The author's assertion that Greek, Roman, and Renaissance art tried to
represent the world accurately is:
A. illustrated in the passage by examples of specific works of art.
B. not supported by evidence in the passage.
C. supported in the passage by a discussion of the nature of perception.
D. contradicted by evidence later in the passage.
We know, for example, that at various stages in the history of art there have
been attempts to make art "imitative"; and not only Greek and Roman art, but
the Renaissance of Classical art in Europe, were periods of art possessed by a
desire to represent the world "as it really is." But there always intervened
between the visual event and the act of realizing the vision an activity which
we can only call interpretative. This intervention seemed to be made
necessary by the very nature of perception, which does not present to the
senses a flat two-dimensional picture with precise b
MCAT CARS Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
Question: What does empathetic mean?
Answer: To be understanding or sensitive to the feelings, thoughts, and
experiences of others.
Question:
What is proponent?
Answer: Advocate or agree with
Question:
If the claims made in the passage are correct, how would politicians on the
political right be expected to react to America's program to protect
endangered species from extinction?
Answer: Me: Failed to choose the authors negative tone
Authors says the right hates government interference so they would hate and
criticize. I had the right answer at first but read that the program had little cost
so I assumed they couldn't criticize it.
Lesson: choose BASED on authors tone. The criticize the authors main idea
Question:
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To which of the following hypothetical Congressional actions would the
author probably lend the most support, based on the information in the
passage?
Answer: Missed the passage information that companies did voluntary choice
in regard to stop pollution
I did not know the answer automatically
Question:
Suppose researchers discovered the manuscript for an 1841 musical theater
act to be preformed on Mississippi River steamboats....
Answer: Strengthen because Musical originated from London that author
mentioned
I did not know the answer automatically
Question:
Which of the following questions are answered?
Answer: choose answers that are evidenced in the passage
Question:
Which would weaken the author's argument?
Answer: expand upon reasoning in the text
usually points that contradict the main idea
Question:
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Character Development
Answer: Make up a word that characterize the people in the passage and put
it against each answer choice
Question:
Main Idea
Answer: Is the author an unbiased writer or do they feel strongly on the topic
they are writing about?
What is the author's purpose in writing this piece?
Are they aiming to persuade readers or simply inform them of the facts?
Question:
The author's suggestion that reality in art before Cézanne had been a "will-o'-
the-wisp" can most reasonably be interpreted to mean that artists before
Cézanne had not:
A. attempted to imitate reality faithfully.
B. agreed about the value of Impressionism.
C. been able to perceive reality.
D. found a way to depict reality effectively.
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Answer: I choose C.
- C is wrong because they didn't have a problem with perception but with
application.
D is the correct answer.
- the author mentions "perspective does not give us any glimpse of the
reality.". So perception is present but it is not being used effectively.
Question:
The author's assertion that Greek, Roman, and Renaissance art tried to
represent the world accurately is:
A. illustrated in the passage by examples of specific works of art.
B. not supported by evidence in the passage.
C. supported in the passage by a discussion of the nature of perception.
D. contradicted by evidence later in the passage.
We know, for example, that at various stages in the history of art there have
been attempts to make art "imitative"; and not only Greek and Roman art, but
the Renaissance of Classical art in Europe, were periods of art possessed by a
desire to represent the world "as it really is." But there always intervened
between the visual event and the act of realizing the vision an activity which
we can only call interpretative. This intervention seemed to be made
necessary by the very nature of perception, which does not present to the
senses a flat two-dimensional picture with precise b
