SAT OwlQuestion bank / Cross-Text Connections
Text 1: Some museum directors argue that visitors should be allowed to photograph artworks freely. Photography, they say, lets visitors share art with friends and builds public interest in museums.
Text 2: Curator Maya Okafor worries that constant photography changes how visitors experience art. In her observations, many visitors spent more time looking at paintings through their phone screens than looking at the paintings directly, often moving on as soon as they had taken a picture.
Based on the texts, how would Okafor most likely respond to the museum directors' view in Text 1?
She would suggest that photography may reduce visitors' direct engagement with the artworks.
She would agree that photography has no drawbacks for museum visitors.
She would argue that museums should charge visitors a fee for taking photographs.
She would claim that visitors rarely share their photographs with friends.
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Answer: A
Okafor observed visitors looking at screens instead of paintings and leaving right after taking pictures. She would answer the directors by pointing to this cost: photography can take the place of actually looking at the art, as choice A says.
Choice D addresses sharing, which Okafor never discusses; her concern is how visitors look at art in the gallery.
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