Mindyard | The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question. This book takes the position that setting in literature is more than just backdrop, that important insight into literary texts can be made by paying close attention to how authors craft place, as well as to how place functions in a narrative. The authors included in this reference work engage deeply with either real or imagined geographies. They care about how human decisions have shaped landscapes and how landscapes have shaped human practices and values. Some of the best writing is highly vivid, employing the language of the senses because this is the primary means through which humans know physical space. Literature can offer valuable perspectives on physical and cultural geography. Unlike scientific reports, a literary narrative can provide the emotional component missing from the scientific record. In human experience, geographical places have a spiritual or emotional component in addition to and as part of a physical layout and topography. This emotional component, although subjective, is no less “real” than a surveyor’s map. Human consciousness of place is experienced in a multimodal manner. Histories of places live on in many forms, one of which is the human memory or imagination. Both real and imaginary landscapes provide insight into the human experience of place. The pursuit of such a topic speaks to the valuable knowledge produced from bridging disciplines and combining material from both the arts and the sciences to better understand the human condition. The perspectives that most concern cultural geographers are often those regarding movement and migration, ultivation of natural resources, and organization of space. The latter two reflect concerns of the built environment, a topic shared with the field of architectural study. Many of these concerns are also reflected in work sociologists do. Scholars from literary studies can contribute an aesthetic dimension to what might otherwise be a purely ideological approach. Literature can bring together material that spans different branches of science. For example, a literary description of place may involve not only the environment and geography but the noises and quality of light, or how people from different races or classes can experience the same place in different ways linked to those racial or class disparities. Literary texts can also account for the way in which absence—of other people, animals, and so on—affects a human observer or inhabitant. Both literary and scientific approaches to place are necessary, working in unison, to achieve a complete record of an environment. It is important to note that the interdisciplinary nature of this work teaches us that landscapes are not static, that they are not unchanged by human culture. At least part of their identity derives from the people who inhabit them and from the way space can alter and inspire human perspective. The intersection of scientific and literary expression that happens in the study of literary geography is of prime importance due to the complexity of the personal and political ways that humans experience place. Which one of the following is not true of the argument in the second paragraph? Analysing the literary descriptions of a place can give us a sense of how people relate emotionally to it., The spiritual experience of a place may be considered as real as the physical experience of it., The emotional and spiritual experience of a place can replace a surveyor’s map., Literary accounts of places can be filled with histories, manifested as memory or imagination.

The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.

This book takes the position that setting in literature is more than just backdrop, that important insight into literary texts can be made by paying close attention to how authors craft place, as well as to how place functions in a narrative. The authors included in this reference work engage deeply with either real or imagined geographies. They care about how human decisions have shaped landscapes and how landscapes have shaped human practices and values. Some of the best writing is highly vivid, employing the language of the senses because this is the primary means through which humans know physical space.

Literature can offer valuable perspectives on physical and cultural geography. Unlike scientific reports, a literary narrative can provide the emotional component missing from the scientific record. In human experience, geographical places have a spiritual or emotional component in addition to and as part of a physical layout and topography. This emotional component, although subjective, is no less “real” than a surveyor’s map. Human consciousness of place is experienced in a multimodal manner. Histories of places live on in many forms, one of which is the human memory or imagination. Both real and imaginary landscapes provide insight into the human experience of place. The pursuit of such a topic speaks to the valuable knowledge produced from bridging disciplines and combining material from both the arts and the sciences to better understand the human condition.

The perspectives that most concern cultural geographers are often those regarding movement and migration, ultivation of natural resources, and organization of space. The latter two reflect concerns of the built environment, a topic shared with the field of architectural study. Many of these concerns are also reflected in work sociologists do. Scholars from literary studies can contribute an aesthetic dimension to what might otherwise be a purely ideological approach. Literature can bring together material that spans different branches of science. For example, a literary description of place may involve not only the environment and geography but the noises and quality of light, or how people from different races or classes can experience the same place in different ways linked to those racial or class disparities. Literary texts can also account for the way in which absence—of other people, animals, and so on—affects a human observer or inhabitant.

Both literary and scientific approaches to place are necessary, working in unison, to achieve a complete record of an environment. It is important to note that the interdisciplinary nature of this work teaches us that landscapes are not static, that they are not unchanged by human culture. At least part of their identity derives from the people who inhabit them and from the way space can alter and inspire human perspective. The intersection of scientific and literary expression that happens in the study of literary geography is of prime importance due to the complexity of the personal and political ways that humans experience place.

Which one of the following is not true of the argument in the second paragraph?

Options

Analysing the literary descriptions of a place can give us a sense of how people relate emotionally to it.

The spiritual experience of a place may be considered as real as the physical experience of it.

The emotional and spiritual experience of a place can replace a surveyor’s map.

Literary accounts of places can be filled with histories, manifested as memory or imagination.

Correct Answer :

Option C

The emotional and spiritual experience of a place can replace a surveyor’s map.

Solution :

The correct answer is: The emotional and spiritual experience of a place can replace a surveyor’s map.

To determine why this statement is not true of the argument in the second paragraph, let us examine the passage closely.

The second paragraph states: "This emotional component, although subjective, is no less 'real' than a surveyor’s map." This sentence tells us that the emotional or spiritual experience of a place is equally as valid and tangible in the human experience as the physical dimensions recorded on a map. However, saying something is "no less real" than another thing is very different from saying it can replace that thing.

Furthermore, the paragraph explicitly mentions that geographical places have a spiritual or emotional component "in addition to and as part of a physical layout and topography." This phrasing ("in addition to") clearly indicates that both components coexist and are both necessary. The emotional experience supplements the physical map rather than substituting it.

Later in the text (paragraph four), the author reinforces this by stating, "Both literary and scientific approaches to place are necessary, working in unison, to achieve a complete record of an environment." Therefore, the emotional/spiritual experience (the literary approach) cannot replace the surveyor's map (the scientific approach). Since the statement in the correct option claims it can replace the map, it contradicts the passage and is the false statement the question is asking for.

Let's briefly see why the other options are true based on the paragraph:

1. "Analysing the literary descriptions of a place can give us a sense of how people relate emotionally to it." - This is true, as the passage states a "literary narrative can provide the emotional component missing from the scientific record."

2. "The spiritual experience of a place may be considered as real as the physical experience of it." - This is true, directly supported by the quote that the emotional component is "no less 'real' than a surveyor’s map."

3. "Literary accounts of places can be filled with histories, manifested as memory or imagination." - This is true, as the text notes, "Histories of places live on in many forms, one of which is the human memory or imagination. Both real and imaginary landscapes provide insight..."

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