READING ASSESSMENT

Why did Capa change his name?

• To hide his identity

• Because he had been involved in protests

• To sound more American

• Because he had to leave Hungary

Capa originally wanted to be?

• A photojournalist

• writer

• American

• A protestor

Capa went to Spain to

• Fight in the civil war

• Build his reputation

• Have a holiday

• Take photographs

Capa’s famous picture Death of a Loyalist Soldier

• Was taken by someone else

• Was definitely genuine

• Wasn’t even taken in Spain

• Cannot be proven genuine or staged

When World War II broke out Capa

• Went to New York

• Swam ashore on Omaha Beach

• Went to Europe

• Went to Normandy

A mistake meant that

• Only one hundred of Capa’s photographs were published

• Capa lost both of his two cameras

• Capa’s images inspired an Oscar winning movie

• Most of Capa’s images of the D-Day landing were destroyed

Capa’s private life was

• Less dramatic than his professional life

• Spent mostly in Hollywood

• Very glamorous

• Spent in Turkey

Capa wanted his work to

• Be very famous

• Show how glamorous war can be

• Show the true horror of war

• Make lots of money

Which sentence best paraphrases paragraph 5?

• Capa had a tragic private life and was never able to settle down and find happiness

• Despite having many good friends and lovers, Capa always put his work first

• Capa wanted to make friends with important people in Hollywood so that he could move into the movie industry

• Capa’s private life was very complicated. He could not choose between the two women he loved, so he went off to work in Turkey

Which sentence best paraphrases paragraph 4?

• Capa never tried to avoid danger. He risked his life to take photographs of the D-Day invasion, but then destroyed most of them

• Capa took some of his most famous photographs during the D-Day invasion, but most were tragically destroyed in an accident

• Capa only kept the best eight D-Day photographs as the others were out of focus.

  These inspired the visual style of a Hollywood film

• Capa left Europe when the war broke out and went to take his most famous photographs of the D-Day invasion