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? Reading and Writing · None · None · MCQ Q13

The 2021 exhibition This Is the Day at Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art featured works dealing with expressions of faith and spirituality in the Black community. The museum’s 2022 exhibition The Dirty South, meanwhile, focused on Black culture in the American South from 1920 to 2020, with a particular focus on the intersections between visual arts and music. Together, these exhibitions don’t merely the Black experience in the US; (highlight the diversity of)/(have depicted) they also showcase the and engaged with that experience. (diverse media through which artists)/(Which statement about the exhibitions,) if true, would most directly support the underlined claim?

A
Between them, This Is the Day and The Dirty South included drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, videos, costumes, and music.
B
This Is the Day included works by fewer than two dozen artists, whereas The Dirty South included works by more than 80 artists.
C
This Is the Day exclusively included works in the permanent collection of the museum, whereas The Dirty South included works from multiple sources outside the museum.
D
Between them, This Is the Day and The Dirty South included works depicting more than 300 years of Black experience in the United States.

Correct answer: A (parsed from the explanation — this source omits an answer key for this item)

Explanation

Choice A is the best answer because it presents a statement that, if true, would support the claim that the two exhibitions This Is the Day and The Dirty South showcase the diverse media artists have used to represent the Black experience in the US. The text describes the thematic focus of the two exhibitions: religious and spiritual expressions in the Black community and the connections between visual arts and music in Black culture in the American South between 1920 and 2020. If these exhibits included works created with many different materials and means of artistic expression (such as paint, textiles, sculptural stone, and musical forms), they would display how artists have portrayed and responded to the Black experience in the US as well as the variety of media that these artists have used to do so. 8 SAT PRACTICE TEST #6 ANSWER EXPLANATIONS SAT ANSWER EXPLANATIONS n READING AND WRITING: MODULE 1 Choice B is incorrect because it focuses on the number of artists whose works were included in the exhibitions, not on the means of expression that these artists have used. Therefore, the statement wouldn’t address the claim that the exhibits showcased the different media artists have used to represent the Black experience in the US. Choice C is incorrect because it focuses on how the works that were included in the exhibitions were sourced, not on the means of expression the artists whose works were featured have used. Therefore, the statement wouldn’t address the claim that the exhibits showcased the different media artists have used to represent the Black experience in the US. Choice D is incorrect. Although the statement focuses on similarities in the themes of the two exhibitions—that is, they both concern the Black experience in the US—it doesn’t mention the media that artists whose works were featured in the exhibitions have used to portray and respond to this experience.

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