Module G Assessment

1. Part A: In Passage 1, what was the result of Komar and Melamid starting an elephant art academy?

• Elephants and their out-of-work trainers were able to make money to survive.

• People learned that elephant artists are not as talented as human artists.

• The rest of the forests in Thailand were cleared.

• We learned that all elephants prefer to use bright colors when creating portraits.

2. Part B: Which detail supports the answer in Part A?

• “They could not go back to the wild, because there was no ‘wild’ left.” (paragraph 2)

• “Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, two Russian artists living in New York City, heard about the elephants and their trainers.” (paragraph 3)

• “The idea was to teach the elephants how to paint and then sell their paintings to make money to feed and care for them.” (paragraph 4)

• “One talented elephant named Paya specializes in painting pictures of elephants.” (paragraph 5)

3. Which sentence from Passage 1 suggests that the author thinks elephant artists are admirable?

• “They had a wild idea: They started an elephant art academy!” (paragraph 3)

• “They started an elephant art academy!” (paragraph 3)

• “They create art for all of us to enjoy.” (paragraph 4)

• “Eleven-year-old Paya really loves to paint.” (paragraph 5)

4. Select two statements that belong in a summary of Passage 1.

• Elephants like to eat things like hay, grass, leaves, and other vegetation because they are herbivores.

• Paya the elephant uses the color black to paint.

• The trained elephant artists have exhibitions in many countries, and their paintings sell for lots of money.

• The artists trained elephants to paint pictures and started an elephant art academy called the Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project.

• You can see elephants in the wild in different countries and at zoos too where humans feed them and care for them.

5. Read these sentences from Passage 1.

“For many years in Thailand, some elephants were used as workers in the lumber industry, transporting huge logs. But then in 1990, the government halted all the cutting of the forests. So the elephants and their trainers, called mahouts, were out of work.” (paragraph 1)

What does the word halted mean as it is used in this paragraph?

• fixed

• stopped

• slowed down

• continued

6. What text structure does the author use in paragraphs 11–14?

• The problem and solution structure tells how the artist created less expensive paintings.

• The sequence structure tells the steps the artist took to create realistic copies of famous art pieces.

• The description structure describes how to spot a fake piece of art.

• The cause-and-effect structure demonstrates why the artist created realistic copies of famous art pieces.

7. Part A: What is the central idea of Passage 2

• Art forger Han van Meegeren used multiple techniques to skillfully make and sell fake paintings.

• Lost paintings by famous Dutch artist Jan Vermeer were discovered after 300 years.

• X-rays show that artist Han van Meegeren copied the paintings of famous artists, leading to his arrest.

• Badger hair was a common material used to make paint brushes hundreds of years ago.

8. Part B: Which detail supports the answer in Part A?

• “Han van Meegeren was a Dutch painter…” (paragraph 6)

• “At the time, selling national treasures was a crime punishable by death.” (paragraph 7)

• “To escape this harsh fate, van Meegeren confessed to painting the picture himself.” (paragraph 7)

• “To make sure the paint would look old when it dried, he added chemicals that would age it.” (paragraph 11

9. Read these sentences from Passage 2.

“At the time, selling national treasures was a crime punishable by death. To escape this harsh fate, van Meegeren confessed to painting the picture himself.” (paragraph 7)

What does the word harsh mean as it is used in this paragraph?

• fair

• short

• severe

• pleasant

10. Which two sentences suggest the author thinks van Meegeren’s painting could have been created to look more like the original?

• “He was finally arrested in 1945 for selling a painting that he claimed was by Jan Vermeer, a famous Dutch artist who lived 300 years earlier.” (paragraph 1)

• “First, he found an old painting from the 1600s and cut it to make a canvas the right size.” (paragraph 11)

• “Van Meegeren spent a year painting his masterpiece, a new painting in Vermeer’s style.” (paragraph 12)

• “Because cracks in old paintings usually have dirt in them, van Meegeren covered the painting with black ink, letting it seep into the cracks he had just made.” (paragraph 13

• “Chemical tests also showed cobalt in the blue paint—too bad there was no cobalt blue in Vermeer’s day!” (paragraph 15)