Question 64·200 Super-Hard SAT Reading Questions·Craft and Structure

Text 1 is from a novel about the reopening of a historic theater. Text 2 discusses the conservation of historic objects.

Text 1

Nila declined the theater director’s request to repaint the century-old stage curtain its former crimson. Instead, she reinforced it with undyed netting, visible on close inspection, and retained both the pale bands created when the curtain was folded during years of touring and an arc of soot from a later storage fire. To keep the auditorium uncluttered, the director installed Nila’s explanatory label in the lobby around the corner. At the preview, one guest praised the original painter’s “delicate gray arc,” while a theater historian called the muted bands evidence of the painter’s restraint. Nila realized that both had taken damage for design.

Text 2

Conservators sometimes distinguish material legibility from historical legibility. A repair is materially legible when additions can be distinguished from surviving fabric; this prevents a present intervention from masquerading as original work. Historical legibility, however, concerns whether viewers can infer the chronology of all visible features. The first does not guarantee the second: an obvious support may reveal itself as new without explaining whether a nearby stain, abrasion, or discoloration preceded or followed the object’s creation. Exhibition choices can supply that chronology, but only if interpretive material is encountered with the object. Thus, judgments about treatment and display may diverge even though both affect what an object seems to say about its past.

Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely agree with which statement about Nila’s work in Text 1?