Multiple choice

Politicians are primarily concerned with their own survival; artists are concerned with revealing truth. Of course, the difference in their reactions is readily predictable. For example, while the governmental leaders wrote laws to ensure the triumph of industrialization in Western Europe, artists painted, wrote about, and composed music in response to the horrible conditions created by the Industrial Revolution. Only later did political leaders come to see what the artists had immediately perceived, and then only through a dark glass. Experience teaches us that___________.

Which of the following represents the most critical continuation of the passage?

  1. artistic vision perceives in advance of political practice

  2. artists are Utopian by nature while governmental leaders are practical

  3. throughout history political leaders have not been very responsive to the needs of their people

  4. the world would be a much better place to live if only artists would become kings

  5. history is the best judge of the progress of civilization
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Explanation

(1) The point of the passage is that artists see things as they really are, whereas politicians see things as they want them to be.

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