Craft and StructureVery hardTwo views on how to arrange a museum
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
A museum should display its objects in the order they were made, so that visitors see how a craft developed.
Text 2
Chronological display tells one story, the craft's. Grouping objects by the household that used them tells another, in which a cheap new bowl and an heirloom sit together as they did in life. Neither order is neutral.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?
- A. Text 2 does not reject the arrangement Text 1 favours but denies that any arrangement is free of a point of view.Correct
- B. Text 2 argues that objects should not be displayed at all.
- C. Text 2 agrees that chronological order is the only sound one.
- D. Text 1 discusses households.
Answer: A. Text 2 does not reject the arrangement Text 1 favours but denies that any arrangement is free of a point of view.
Every order tells a story.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Text 2 argues that objects should not be displayed at all.
- Text 2 proposes another arrangement.
- C. Text 2 agrees that chronological order is the only sound one.
- Text 2 calls it one story among others.
- D. Text 1 discusses households.
- Only Text 2 mentions households.
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