A question about how two texts relate tests what one text does to the other’s claim. Read the question to find which claim is being answered, then put each text’s claim and evidence in a few words. If a text discusses several groups of examples, track each group separately. Ask whether the second text rejects the claim, limits it, or takes it further. Check why the texts agree or disagree, since agreement or disagreement alone doesn’t show why.
Hints
- Hint 1
Look at the strength of Mora’s conclusion. What does it claim about how consistently Saye used the motif?
- Hint 2
Compare Deol’s evidence for the five paintings with his evidence for the other two. What does each group show about when and where the rectangles entered the paintings?
- Hint 3
What does Deol’s final sentence tell you about the strength of the evidence for a harbor signal and for a link to the labor dispute?
Step-by-step
Weigh both groups of paintings
Step 1Find Mora’s full claim
Mora says Saye used the motif systematically to comment on hazardous working conditions. Since the question asks how Text 2 responds, what is that claim based on? The handbook gives a meaning for three blue flags, and some rectangles appear near piers involved in a labor dispute. She sees a repeated message about unsafe work.
- Step 2
Read the evidence from most paintings
What does Deol find in five of the seven paintings? The blue covers earlier orange guide blocks positioned to balance red forms across the canvas. The notebook’s phrase “cool blocks to quiet the crowded edge” supports the same purpose. That supports a compositional function, meaning a role in arranging the picture, but doesn’t rule out other meanings.
- Step 3
Weigh the exceptions and their limits
The turn “In the other two paintings, however,” calls for a separate check. Do those paintings fit the same account? Their rectangles appear from the first charcoal layouts beside signal masts, and one followed a visit to a pier where the unsafe-berth signal had been displayed. That makes a link to a signal possible. But none of Saye’s notes connects the motif to the labor dispute, so the signal clues don’t prove a systematic message about unsafe work.
- Step 4
Match the response and its strength
Which wording matches how cautious Deol is? The choice with qualifies, meaning puts limits on a claim, pairs compositional function with leaves open the possibility. That wording allows a role in arranging the picture without ruling out a signal meaning in some cases. The rectangles may have served different roles across the paintings. Choice B.