501 Critical Reading Questions

a.
After defining public art, the rest of the passage discusses the
functions of public art and its impact on the city.
165.
d.
The examples in the first paragraph and the list of different
kinds of public art (e.g., ornamental benches in line 28) will
make readers more aware of public art; paragraphs 2 and 3
explain the difference between public and private art; paragraph
5 explains how public art affects the community; and paragraph
6 discusses how public art should be created. A few readers may
be inspired to create public art after reading this passage, but
that is not one of its goals.
166.
a.
Although lines 12–13 states that 
there exists in every city a symbi-
otic relationship between the city and its art
and paragraph 5
explains how public art affects the city, there is no discussion of
how the city affects art.
167.
b.
Because the main purpose is to show what public art is and how
public art affects the city, the passage would be best served by
an expanded discussion of how public art fulfills each of the
important functions in paragraph 5.
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