d can be reconstructed using n test sets if there exist T 1,-T n T i T i d then this minimum is n=d. To obtain this we prove the following two results. (1)?A?translate of a fixed absolutely continuous function of one variable can be reconstructed using one test set. (2)?Under rather mild conditions the Radon transform of the characteristic function of K (that is, the measure function of the sections of K), (R θ χ K x,θ?r}) is absolutely continuous for almost every direction θ. These proofs are based on techniques of harmonic analysis. We also show that if $\mathcal{A}$ consists of the enlarged homothetic copies rE+t (r?,t∈? d ) of a fixed reasonably nice set E?? d , where d?, then d+1 test sets reconstruct an element of $\mathcal{A}$ , and this is optimal. This fails in ? we prove that a closed interval, and even a closed interval of length at least 1 cannot be reconstructed using two test sets. Finally, using randomly constructed test sets, we prove that an element of a reasonably nice k-dimensional family of geometric objects can be reconstructed using 2k+1 test sets. An example from algebraic topology shows that 2k+1 is sharp in general." />