Does the highlighted "tested" in the following text mean "challenged"?
Context:
In the light of all of this artistry and extravaganza, the conventional distinctions and hierarchies between advertising and art are readily tested. Rather than providing some sort of exposition of the efficacy or benefits of the product, Kaye succeeds in transcending functionality to create a piece that uses the product as a pretext for the outlet of the imagination and which, in the spirit of Romanticism, extends the bounds of experience.
Yes. In testing conventional distinctions and hierarchies, you are challenging their validity.
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Yes. In testing conventional distinctions and hierarchies, you are challenging their validity.