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Craft and StructureVery hardTwo texts on a sculpture's surface

Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 The sculpture's rough, tool-marked surface shows that the artist abandoned it before it was finished. Text 2 The artist's letters describe the piece as complete, and record her refusing a patron's request to have it polished.

Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely say that Text 1 ____

  1. A. mistakes a deliberate finish for an abandoned one, since the artist herself called the piece complete and refused to smooth it.Correct
  2. B. is right that the sculpture was never finished.
  3. C. overstates the roughness of the surface.
  4. D. ignores the patron's role in making the sculpture.

Answer: A. mistakes a deliberate finish for an abandoned one, since the artist herself called the piece complete and refused to smooth it.

Complete by her own account, and unpolished by choice.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. is right that the sculpture was never finished.
Text 2 contradicts this.
C. overstates the roughness of the surface.
Roughness is not disputed.
D. ignores the patron's role in making the sculpture.
The patron asked for polishing and was refused.

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