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Craft and StructureVery hardTwo authors on the meaning of a gift

Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 The stained-glass window given to the church in 1880 by the mill owner shows his piety, argues historian Sol Marr, citing its inscription 'To the glory of God'. Text 2 The window was given the year after a strike at the mill that the owner had broken by evicting the strikers from his cottages, and it was placed in the wall the strikers' families faced from the free pews. Its inscription is conventional; its position is not. Piety may have moved the owner, but the window was also a message to the people who had to look at it every Sunday.

Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 responds to Marr's reading?

  1. A. By allowing that the gift may have been pious while arguing that its timing and placement made it a statement of power over the strikers' families.Correct
  2. B. By denying that the window bears the inscription.
  3. C. By claiming the window was given by the strikers.
  4. D. By agreeing that the window shows only piety.

Answer: A. By allowing that the gift may have been pious while arguing that its timing and placement made it a statement of power over the strikers' families.

The year after the strike; facing the free pews.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. By denying that the window bears the inscription.
The inscription is accepted as conventional.
C. By claiming the window was given by the strikers.
Not claimed.
D. By agreeing that the window shows only piety.
The reverse.

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