Question

Imani is a high school student on a field trip for her art class to the New Orleans Museum of Art. One particular gallery is set up displaying works of various French artists. On the far wall, Imani sees an intriguing painting. Her eye gathers light through her pupil and her lens focuses the light on her cornea. The process of accommodation adjusts the shape of her lens so she can see the painting clearly from a distance. Imani walks up to the work of art that initially grabbed her attention. The painting depicts a series of interlocking squares and rectangles of blue, yellow, red and black. Up close, she is able to see the painting's details most clearly because her lens focuses light intensely onto her blind spot. She is able to distinguish among the different colors of the painting because her visual receptors respond to the different amplitudes of light reflecting off the painting. After staring at the painting for several minutes, Imani looks away onto a white wall and sees an afterimage of yellow, blue, green and white rectangles, which can be explained by the Trichromatic Light Theory.
Refer to the sentence, "Up close, she is able to see the painting's details most clearly because her lens focuses light intensely onto her blind spot." Does the statement from the paragraph above identify the correct structure where light is focused so we can see details clearly?

Answer 1

Answer: "Up close, she is able to see the painting's details most clearly because her lens focuses light intensely onto her blind spot."

This statement above DOES NOT identify the correct structure were light is focused so we can see clearly.

Explanation: "up close" means to be closer to an image so that you can view it clearly.

The blind spot of the eye is a small part of the optic nerve, which is the visual field of each eye where there are no photoreceptors (rods or cones), and therefore images are not formed in this portion of the eye. When light falls in this portion of the eye, images won't be formed, because the photoreceptors that forms the image for the brain to interpret are not present in that portion.

For example, after being exposed to a bright light, we find it difficult to detect images immediately, because the retina has adjusted for light to fall on the blind spot.

The statement in that paragraph is wrong because her eyes can't detect any image that fall on the blind spot, so therefore the brain will not have any image to interpret, which makes it impossible for her to see clearly