Q9

[Shiggins]

Line 4-5 talk about how even prominent specialist get tricked. But I have trouble relating this choice E to the one critic who didn't change his mind.

[noah]

The third sentence of the first paragraph starts with "For instance" and so we know that we're getting an example of what was mentioned before: that even prominent art specialists can be fooled by a great forgery. The last sentence of this is the icing on the cake - one critic wouldn't change his mind even when Van Meegeren confessed!

While the beginning of that sentence - "astonishingly" - lets you to think we're learning of something that doesn't fit the trend, in this case it's simply showing how far the phenomenon of fooling critics can go. (E) connects the reference to the greater topic of that paragraph.

(A) is unsupported. While this may be the reason the art critic stuck to his view, it's not the topic of the paragraph.

(B) is out of scope. Knowledge isn't the point.

(C) is contradicted - we are meant to accept that the piece is a forgery. The artist confessed!

(D) is tempting, since there's a lot of discussion of a forgery's value, but that's surely not what this paragraph is discussing. In fact, we never hear about the concept of forgery - we hear about the value of forged art.