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​ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

Multiple Choice

a) What is MS Fogg first feeling when seeing the painting ?

• contemplative

• enthusiastic

• disappointed

• resentful

Multiple Select

b)   Pick out the adjective that corresponds best to the Indians' attitude .

• serene

• anxious

• fearful

• fearless

• amused

Multiple Choice

d)  After reading the passage, which painting corresponds best to the description ?

6

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Multiple Choice

e)    What conclusion does Marco draw from the fact that the sky is painted green? 

• He believed the painter made an allegory, to highlight the link between the sky and the ground

• He knew Blakelock was running out of blue paint

• He thought Blakelock wasn't a good painter

• He imagined there was a connection between the sea and the land

• He realised it was to emphasize nature

Multiple Choice

g)    Pick out a sentence showing that the painting is a legacy in memory of the past.*

• It was too late to hope that any of these things could survive

• It was not a landscape, it was a memorial, a death song for a vanished world.

• I felt that I has discovered something

• But if he hadn't been trying to represent an actual landscape, what had he been up to ?