<p>Here are two SC's, both of which are level 5, that i do not understand their logic: </p>
<p>The crude animated effects_<strong><em>projected images from seventeenth-century lantern slides have now been recognized as _</em></strong>___ of modern film animation.
A) complemented by...antecedents
B) forestalled by...harbingers
C) depicted in...derivatives
D) featured in...replicas
E) afforded by...forerunners</p>
<p>The _______ of impact craters on Venus suggests that erosion may have smoothed its surface over the past billion years.
A) magnitude
B) panoply
C) spate
D) ruggedness
E) paucity</p>
<p>The former's answer is E, however, what's wrong with C?
The latter's answer is E as well. I don't understand the logic of this question: If erosion smoothed Venus's surface, does it matter if there were alot of impact craters or if there were very little amount of craters?</p>
<p>1) I completely agree with you that c is a viable answer. Unfortunately the ETS are not too bright so they way I get these type of questions right is by picking the answer choice with the hardest words (if two answer choices make sense). Choice C has the word “depicted” which will never be an answer to a level 5 question.</p>
<p>2) Venus could have attained a smooth surface from either: a) a large number of impact craters colliding with its surface or b) erosion made the surface leveled. Because there was a small number (or paucity) of impact craters, it must have been the erosion that smoothed the surface.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>For the first one, choice C can not work because it makes the lantern slides sound as though they are derived from modern film animation. While it is the modern film animation that is derived from these lantern slides.</p>
<p>And for the latter, none of the choices really make sense except E. Some SCs are just hard.</p>
<p>Oh yeah that’s true. What he said for the first one ^^</p>
<p>^yea, I didn’t look at the answer for number 1 when you posted, just to see what’d I’d put as the answer, and I came up with E as well for the same reasoning that superexcited used.</p>