English III First exam [30%]

Second semester, 2019-2

READING SECTION (20 POINTS)

Read the following article about the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso. Answer the questions
below.

Guernica (Picasso)

Guernica is a large oil painting on canvas by Spanish

artist Pablo Picasso completed in June 1937. Now in the
Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the gray, black, and white
painting was done at Picasso's home in Paris. It is
regarded by many art critics as one of the most moving
and powerful anti-war paintings in history and is one of
Picasso's best-known works.

Standing at 3.49 meters (11 ft 5 in) tall and 7.76 meters

(25 ft 6 in) wide, the painting shows the suffering of
people and animals wrenched by violence and chaos.
Prominent in the composition are a gored horse, a bull,
screaming women, dismemberment, and flames.

The painting was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country town
in northern Spain, by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy at the request of the Spanish
Nationalists. Upon completion, Guernica was exhibited at the Spanish display at the 1937
Paris International Exposition and then at other venues around the world. The touring
exhibition was used to raise funds for Spanish war relief. The painting became famous and
widely acclaimed, and it helped bring worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War.

Guernica was painted using a matte house paint specially formulated at Picasso's request to
have the least possible gloss. American artist John Ferren assisted him in stretching the
monumental canvas, and photographer Dora Maar, who had been working with Picasso
since mid-1936 photographing his studio and teaching him the technique of cameraless
photography, documented its creation. Apart from their documentary and publicity value,
Maar's photographs "helped Picasso to eschew color and give the work the black-and-white
immediacy of a photograph", according to art historian John Richardson.
Creation

Picasso, who rarely allowed strangers into his studio to watch him work, admitted
influential visitors to observe his progress on Guernica, believing that the publicity would
help the antifascist cause. As his work on the mural progressed, Picasso explained: "The
Spanish struggle is the fight of reaction against the people, against freedom. My whole life
as an artist has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against reaction and the death
of art. How could anybody think for a moment that I could be in agreement with reaction
and death? ... In the panel on which I am working, which I shall call Guernica, and in all
my recent works of art, I clearly express my abhorrence of the military caste which has
sunk Spain in an ocean of pain and death." Picasso worked on the painting for 35 days and
finished it on 4 June 1937.

Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)

1. Say if the following statements are True or False.

a) ________ Guernica was completed by Picasso in Madrid in 1937.

b) ________ Guernica was created in honour to Spanish victims during the Second
World War.

c) ________ Picasso was helped by other artists to create a special effect.

d) ________ Picasso used to be visited by many fans before the creation of Guernica
to get publicity.

e) ________ Picasso was against Spanish Nationalists.

2. Read the text again and choose the best option (a, b, or c).

1. Guernica is the most __________ Picasso’s work.

a. Historical
b. Colourful
c. Famous

2. In the painting it is easy to identify ________.

a. reptiles
b. mammals
c. birds
3. Guernica is the name of a ________.
a. A city
b. A person
c. A river

4. Dora Marr helped Picasso with ______.

a. the creation of colours
b. the production of photography
c. Both

5.The creation of Guernica took ________

a. approximately a month.
b. more than a month
c. a fortnight

3. Match five of the highlighted underlined words / phrases to the definitions:

1 __________: an ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this.

2 __________: a type of coarse cloth, useful as a surface for paintings.
3 __________: to strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight.
4 __________: a surface shine or lustre
5 __________: to ask somebody to do something

USE OF LANGUAGE SECTION (20 POINTS)

1. Choose the correct answers.

THE TORN MASTERPIECE

If you broke something by mistake, you’d probably offer to pay for it. But what if the
object that 1damaged / was damaged is a painting worth $130 million? Recently, a
woman visiting the metropolitan Museum of Art in New York fell on a Picasso masterpiece
and 2tore / was torn it. The painting, called The Actor, 3painted / was painted in 1905.
Fortunately, the tear 4will be repaired / will repair by the museum and the painting 5will
show / will be shown in a special Picasso exhibition that 6plans / is planned for the
summer. The woman has said that she 7won’t be visited / won’t visit the exhibition – she
8doesn’t want / isn’t wanted to destroy any more masterpieces!

2. Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use present simple
passive, past simple passive or future simple passive.
During the Renaissance, being an artist 1 ______________________ (consider) a job like
any other. Painters and sculptors 2 _____________________ (teach) their profession from
a very young age, by living and working with masters. In those days, artists
3______________________ (ask) by their patrons – churches, kings and dukes – to do
specific jobs, and they 4 _________________________ (pay) for
their work. Today, the life of an artist is very different. When artists create, they don’t
know if their work 5 _____________________ (buy) by anyone. Perhaps it
6___________________ (show) in a gallery one day – but they will have to pay the gallery
owner for their privilege! It sounds difficult, but there’s a good side to it: Renaissance
artists 7 _____________________ (expect) to create exactly what their patrons wanted.
Today, artists 8 ___________________ (not tell) what to do, they are free to create
whatever they like.

3. Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the correct active or passive
form.

a) Most sculptures ____________________ (make) out of metal, wood, clay or stone.

b) Max ___________________________ (not photograph) the dog before he drew it.
c) The students ________________________ (take) to the museum yesterday.
d) Let’s go. They ___________________________ (not sell) art supplies here. I
___________________________ (finish) my sculpture tomorrow.

LISTENING SECTION (20 POINTS)

Answer the following questions about the interview1.

1. Yuri says the painting was ________ a gallery.

a) sold at
b) inspired from
c) displayed at

2. He says the painting was made _____.

a) on the street
b) with specially made wood
c) from an old cupboard

1
Taken and adapted from: http://www.elllo.org/english/0951/T996-Yuri-Yves.htm
 3. After he saw the paintings he _____ .

a) became a painter
b) hurried back home
c) bought a painting

4. From nature, he gets ideas for ______ .

a) colors
b) shapes
c) shading

5. He says he ______ does dark moody paintings.

a) only
b) often
c) occasionally

Listen the conversation again and select TRUE or FALSE according to the statement

6. The artist paint it in 2001

a. True
b. False

7. She says that this is like painting on the door of a bathroom

a. True
b. False

8. Yve Tanguy is an American surrealist

a. True
b. False

9. One day, the artist went to a gallery and painted the picture
a. True
b. False

10. The artist has never done dark paintings

a. True
b. False
VOCABULARY SECTION (20 POINTS)

Drag the words to the right space to complete the text.

THE CREATION OF ADAM BY MICHELANGELO PIETÀ BY MICHELANGELO

THE LAST SUPPER BY LEONARDO DA VINCI VENUS DE MILO

STARRY NIGHT BY VINCENT VAN GOGH GUERNICA BY PICASSO

THE BIRTH OF VENUS BY BOTTICELLI DAVID BY MICHELANGELO

THE SCREAM BY EDVARD MUNCH MONA LISA BY LEONARDO DA VINCI

THE 10 MUST-SEE ART MASTERPIECES OF THE

WORLD2
The world's museums, churches, cathedrals, and even private homes, are filled with some
extraordinary creations by some of the world's greatest minds and talents. Some date back
hundreds and even thousands of years and continue to fascinate and impress those who see
them today. If you want to get up close to the most famous and most awe-inspiring
masterpieces, here they are:

2
Taken and adapted from: https://www.ucityguides.com/cities/top-10-must-see-famous-works-of-art.html
 1. ____________________
WHERE TO SEE IT: THE LOUVRE MUSEUM, PARIS
It's the masterpiece of all masterpieces, the most famous, most discussed and most
enigmatic of all paintings. It's the portrait of a woman, said to be named Lisa Gherardini,
painted by Leonardo da Vinci between 1503 and 1506. It's been on permanent display in
Paris since 1797, except for a period of two years when it was stolen in 1911, before
returning to the Louvre in 1913. The depicted smile has continuously captured the world's
imagination ever since.
2. ____________________
WHERE TO SEE IT: SANTA MARIA DELLE GRAZIE CONVENT, MILAN
Da Vinci's other masterpiece depicts one of the Bible's most famous scenes. Unlike most
other great works of art, it's not in a museum, but covering a wall of a convent in Milan,
with limited access to visitors. Painted between 1494 and 1498, it's been speculated that
one of the twelve apostles seen at the table with Jesus Christ is a woman, Mary Magdalene.
That played a central role in the best-selling fiction novel "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan
Brown.
3. ____________________
WHERE TO SEE IT: APOSTOLIC PALACE, ROME/VATICAN CITY
The world's most famous fresco covers the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican
Museum. Michelangelo took four years to paint the scene from the Old Testament of God
creating the first man, and the iconic image of their hands touching has been reproduced
countless times.
4. ____________________
WHERE TO SEE IT: ACCADEMIA GALLERY, FLORENCE
This is perhaps the greatest masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture. Michelangelo created it
between 1501 and 1504 out of marble, representing the nude body of Biblical hero David.
Measuring 5.17 meters (17 ft), it stood in Florence's main square but is now in the city's
Accademia Gallery to protect it from damage. A replica has replaced it at the original
location.
5. ____________________
WHERE TO SEE IT: ST. PETER'S BASILICA, ROME
Michelangelo was just 25 years-old when he presented this life-sized sculpture of the
Virgin Mary holdings Jesus Christ in Rome's St. Peter's Basilica, in 1500. He had observed
dead bodies as a teenager, and that may explain the realism in this dead Christ that other
sculptors never achieved. Also remarkable is the fact that it was all sculpted from one
single block of marble.
6. ____________________
WHERE TO SEE IT: REINA SOFIA MUSEUM, MADRID
Picasso's most famous work dates from 1937 and presents the tragedy of war in an effort to
draw attention to the bombing of that place (a Basque town) by the Germans. It's an
enormous painting, measuring over 3 meters (11 ft).
7. ____________________
WHERE TO SEE IT: NATIONAL GALLERY, OSLO
This is part of a series of expressionist paintings by Edvard Munch. The background is a
landscape in Norway, and depicts a screaming figure symbolizing the anguishes of modern
life. There are four versions, painted between 1893 and 1910. Two of them are now in
Oslo's National Gallery, while another is in the same city's Munch Museum. The fourth was
sold in 2012 for close to 120 million dollars. The oldest version (from 1893) is in the
National Gallery and was stolen in 1994 but recovered months later. Another version was
stolen in 2004 from the Munch Museum and recovered in 2006.
8. ____________________
WHERE TO SEE IT: MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
Van Gogh's most famous painting shows the village of Saint-Rémy and is considered his
greatest masterpiece. The view is that of his asylum's bedroom window and was painted
from memory in 1889. It's been in New York since 1941.
9. ____________________
WHERE TO SEE IT: UFFIZI GALLERY, FLORENCE
Painted by Botticelli between 1485 and 1487, this is the goddess being born, emerging from
the sea. No one really knows where it was first displayed, but it was commissioned by the
Medici family in Florence. It's become one of the most reproduced images of all time.
10. ____________________
WHERE TO SEE IT: LOUVRE MUSEUM, PARIS
This sculpture has survived for over 2100 years, with the exception of the original arms. It
dates all the way back to between 100 and 130 B.C. and depicts the Greek goddess of love
and beauty. Made of marble, it is slightly larger than life size, and is one of the most
famous ancient Greek sculptures. It was discovered in a farmer's field in the Greek island of
Milos in 1820, and soon acquired by France.

ANSWER SHEET
READING SECTION
SECTION 1
a) False. It was completed in Paris
b) False. It was created in honor to the victims of the Spanish Civil War.
c) True.
d) False. He did not allow many people know his works. Picasso was against Spanish
Nationalists.
e) True.

SECTION 2
1. C. famous
2. B. mammals
3. A. a city
4. C. both
5. B. more than a month
SECTION 3
1.pain
2.canvas
3.struggle
4.gloss
5.request

USE OF LANGUAGE SECTION

SECTION 1
1. was damaged
2. tore
3. was painted
4. will be repaired
5. will be shown
6. is planned
7. won’t visit
8. doesn’t want
2.
1. was considered
2. were taught
3. were asked
4. were paid
5. will be bought
6. will be shown
7. were expected
8. are not told

3.
1. are made
2. didn’t photograph
3. were taken
4. don’t sell / will finish

LISTENING SECTION
1. B
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. C
 6. TRUE
7. FALSE
8. FALSE
9. TRUE
10. FALSE

VOCABULARY SECTION
1. MONA LISA BY LEONARDO DA VINCI
2. THE LAST SUPPER BY LEONARDO DA VINCI
3. THE CREATION OF ADAM BY MICHELANGELO
4. DAVID BY MICHELANGELO
5. PIETÀ BY MICHELANGELO
6. GUERNICA BY PICASSO
7. THE SCREAM BY EDVARD MUNCH
8. STARRY NIGHT BY VINCENT VAN GOGH
9. THE BIRTH OF VENUS BY BOTTICELLI
10. VENUS DE MILO