Lucas M. answered • 06/17/19
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Answer Choices D and D are the correct answers because Lines 74-76 say, “Why do I worry, and toil like a learner over the alphabet, when I might shine as brightly as the rest, and have money, too, like them?” This Text most clearly tells us about how Tchartkoff “finds maintaining his high artistic standards,” and matches Answer Choice D which says that he finds it to be a “laborious undertaking that does not provide suitable compensation,” where “laborious undertaking” matches “worry and toil” and “suitable compensation” matches “have money, too.” For Question 9, Answer Choice A is incorrect because it only describes Tchartkoff’s opinion on maintaining patience and doesn’t tell us about how he feels about maintaining his high artistic standard. Answer Choice B is incorrect because it only tells us that Tchartkoff feels that if he sold his paintings, he would only make a little money. Answer Choice C is incorrect because it only shows Tchartkoff asking a question about who would buy his work, and not about his feelings on maintaining his artistic integrity. For Question 8, Answer Choice A is incorrect because Tchartkoff doesn’t feel like maintaining his high artistic standards will be a “means of attaining short-lived fame,” but instead feels the opposite. Answer Choice B is incorrect because the Passage doesn’t tell us exactly how Tchartkoff views the importance of the goal of maintaining his high artistic standards, but, based on his questioning, it would seem that he thinks that it’s a less important goal for him than it is for his professor. Answer Choice C is incorrect because he never says that he views these standards as a necessary pathway to a goal he wants to accomplish.
How to solve this? Question 8 asks, “The passage suggests that to some extent, Tchartkoff finds maintaining his high artistic standards to be a [...]?” Because this is a Paired Question, to solve it we should first go back to the answer choices for Question 9, looking for any text that tells us how Tchartkoff finds maintaining these high standards to be.
For Question 9, Answer Choice A says [...].
