Phenomenon Identification Quiz

Read the passage and identify the phenomenon each text or extract tells about. Choose the phenomena from the list coming after the text.

Text 1

“…became the integral part of the world development on default during Britain’s colonial years; a legacy which continues to this day. This has been solidified by the dominance of the Anglosphere in industry and technology throughout the 20th century. Take Sky Speak, pilots have to converse in …with each other and Air Traffic Control through a standardized system of commands and responses.…” Вопрос 58Ответ

a. Burberry Trench

b. Cheddar cheese

c. English

d. The Penny Black

e. The Steam Engine

f. The Flying Shuttle

g. The full English breakfast

h. The first mass-produced toothbrush

i. The World Wide Web

j. Floating ballcock (The first flushing toilet)

k. Soda water

l. The Reflecting Telescope

Вопрос 59 Пока нет ответа Балл: 2,00 Текст вопроса Read the passage and identify the phenomenon each text or extract tells about. Choose the phenomena from the list coming after the text.

Text 2

“The … can trace its roots to the working-class communities of the Industrial Revolution. In the factories and mines, workers needed a substantial … to fuel their physically demanding labor. All over the world we can find popular … that started in the poorest social strata. Like the …, which started with the working class, or the classic Brazilian feijoada, which started with the slaves brought from Africa. The examples are countless.” Вопрос 59Ответ

a. The Reflecting Telescope

b. Floating ballcock (The first flushing toilet)

c. The Steam Engine

d. Burberry Trench

e. Cheddar cheese

f. The full English breakfast

g. The Flying Shuttle

h. English

i. The first mass-produced toothbrush

j. The World Wide Web

k. Soda water

l. The Penny Black

Вопрос 60 Пока нет ответа Балл: 2,00 Текст вопроса Read the passage and identify the phenomenon each text or extract tells about. Choose the phenomena from the list coming after the text.

Text 3

“The portrait of Queen Victoria was taken from a medal issued in 1838 that marked the first visit of the queen to the City of London the previous year. The medal was the work of William Wyon, chief engraver at the Royal Mint, based on a portrait drawn in 1834 when Princess Victoria was 15.” Вопрос 60Ответ

a. The Flying Shuttle

b. The Penny Black

c. The World Wide Web

d. Floating ballcock (The first flushing toilet)

e. The full English breakfast

f. The first mass-produced toothbrush

g. Cheddar cheese

h. Burberry Trench

i. The Reflecting Telescope

j. English

k. The Steam Engine

l. Soda water

Вопрос 61 Пока нет ответа Балл: 2,00 Текст вопроса Read the passage and identify the phenomenon each text or extract tells about. Choose the phenomena from the list coming after the text.

Text 4

“… remained in this form until 1780, when a man named William Addis introduced .... Addis actually designed his …, which was the first to resemble the modern …, while in prison. At the time, prisoners were given rags and soot to …, but Addis was not satisfied with this option. To solve his problem, Addis made some holes in one end of a small animal bone, tied swine hair bristles through the holes, and glued them in place. His … design was so effective that after he was released from prison, he started a company to produce this product.” Вопрос 61Ответ

a. The Reflecting Telescope

b. Floating ballcock (The first flushing toilet)

c. The full English breakfast

d. Burberry Trench

e. Soda water

f. Cheddar cheese

g. The World Wide Web

h. The first mass-produced toothbrush

i. The Penny Black

j. The Flying Shuttle

k. The Steam Engine

l. English

Вопрос 62 Пока нет ответа Балл: 2,00 Текст вопроса Read the passage and identify the phenomenon each text or extract tells about. Choose the phenomena from the list coming after the text.

Text 5

“…Undoubtedly Thomas Crapper’s greatest, most lasting contribution was the work he did in developing and promoting the modern W.C. cistern. He was prompted to turn his attention to this when new regulations came into force following the Government’s Metropolis Water Act of 1871. This piece of legislation had been essential, to clear up a terrible state of confusion. At that time there was not a single authority dealing with the whole of London’s water supply as with the Metropolitan Water Board today. Eight separate water companies had the city divided up into sections and this was a terrible headache for the plumbers, since each local company had its own standards and requirements as regards water installations…” Вопрос 62Ответ

a. The World Wide Web

b. Burberry Trench

c. The Penny Black

d. Soda water

e. The Steam Engine

f. The first mass-produced toothbrush

g. The Flying Shuttle

h. Cheddar cheese

i. English

j. The full English breakfast

k. The Reflecting Telescope

l. Floating ballcock (The first flushing toilet)

Вопрос 63 Пока нет ответа Балл: 2,00 Текст вопроса Read the passage and identify the phenomenon each text or extract tells about. Choose the phenomena from the list coming after the text.

Text 6

“…In some ways, emblematic of the unique moment in history that World War I occupies, when everything – from rigidly held social structures to military organization to fashion – was in upheaval; it is both a product of this time as well as a symbol of it. “It’s the result of the scientific innovation, technology, mass production…” Вопрос 63Ответ

a. The Steam Engine

b. The Penny Black

c. The Flying Shuttle

d. English

e. Burberry Trench

f. Floating ballcock (The first flushing toilet)

g. The Reflecting Telescope

h. The World Wide Web

i. The full English breakfast

j. The first mass-produced toothbrush

k. Soda water

l. Cheddar cheese

Read the four texts and answer the questions below by indicating which text each question relates to: A, B, C, D, or None.

Please note that there are two questions which do not refer to any of the texts.

Text A – FRESHENED-UP FRICK TO REOPEN IN APRIL 2025

Designed by Selldorf Architects, with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners acting as executive architect, the renovation included the restoration of the mansion’s extant first-floor galleries and added new galleries on both the ground and second floors, the latter of which was previously off-limits to the public. “People are going to love being able to go upstairs and see the family rooms,” outgoing Frick director Ian Wardropper told the New York Times. Other changes include the removal of the museum’s 149-seat oval music room, which has been replaced with the 220-seat Stephen A. Schwarzman Auditorium; the refurbishment of the Frick Art Research Library’s reading room; and the addition to the building of multiple entry points.

Wardropper, whose role will be filled by Axel Rüger following his departure this spring, told the Times that in addition to mounting never-before-seen displays of its old masters within the Brutalist surrounds of the Frick Madison, the Frick Collection had loaned out a number of works to other institutions during the closure. Those borrowing works for the first time included the Prado in Spain, London’s National Gallery, and Paris’s Musée d’Orsay. “We’re going to get great loans in return,” said Wardropper. The Frick will celebrate its reopening with a weeklong festival of classical and contemporary music, to take place in late April; a commission by Vladimir Kanevsky of porcelain flowers in tribute to the floral arrangements created for the Frick’s 1935 inauguration; and, in late June, an exhibition of the work of iconic Dutch master Johannes Vermeer in the new first-floor galleries, featuring works from its own collection as well as those borrowed from Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.

Text B – WHITNEY TO WELCOME UNDER-25S FREE OF CHARGE THANKS TO MAJOR GIFTS

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, will waive entry fees for visitors twenty-five and under for three years beginning mid-December 2024, courtesy of a donation of more than $2 million from artist Julie Mehretu and a gift of an unspecified amount from philanthropist Susan Hess, the Wall Street Journal reports. Mehretu and Hess are both Whitney board members. The news arrives fifteen months after the museum raised its standard admission prices from$25 to $30 and its student prices from$18 to $24. The price hikes reflected those at a number of arts institutions around the country, many of which cited inflation, rising costs, and stagnant post-pandemic attendance figures as behind the increases. “I did not have access to contemporary art museums as a young adult, and when I moved to New York, I was waiting tables—it was hard to access contemporary art and culture, as it’s hard for so many grad students and young people,” said Mehretu in a statement. “If you really want to push the discourse and evolve the discourse, many more people need to have access to be able to participate, and this program is a step in the right direction.”

The Whitney in recent months launched two programs—Free Friday Nights and Free Second Sundays—meant to draw in visitors of lesser means. According to Hyperallergic, the free programs netted more than 300,000 visitors in the past year, 60 percent of whom identified as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), and many of whom were younger than the typical attendee. Whitney director Scott Rothkopf in a statement noted that the three-year initiative was aimed at making the museum “one of the most accessible large museums in America.” said Mehretu, “You can’t have any conversations around diversity, equity and inclusion without providing access.”

Text C – MAURIZIO CATTELAN’S DUCT-TAPED BANANA EXPECTED TO FETCH $1 MILLION AT AUCTION

The elongated yellow fruit set tongues wagging at its 2019 Art Basel Miami Beach debut, where it was on offer by Perrotin Gallery for a comparatively paltry $120,000. The sculpture ultimately had to be removed from view before the fair’s end owing to what gallery officials described as “uncontrollable crowd movements.” Since then, three editions of Comedian have been sold: one to fashion retailer Sarah Andelman; one to Miami-based collectors William and Beatrice Cox, who announced that they planned to donate it to a museum (an edition of the work was subsequently gifted anonymously to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York); and one to an anonymous collector. Sotheby’s has said that the iteration on offer had already been sold privately before being consigned.

The subject of both admiration and derision, Comedian has twice been torn offthe wall and eaten. Cattelan has said that he did not intend the work as a joke, telling the Art Newspaper in 2021 that “it was a sincere commentary and a reflection on what we value.” David Galperin, Sotheby’s head of contemporary art in the Americas, in a statement affirmed Cattelan’s view, saying, “If at its core, Comedian questions the very notion of the value of art, then putting the work at auction this November will be the ultimate realization of its essential conceptual idea—the public will finally have a say in deciding its true value.”

Text D – PLAN TO OPEN LEONORA CARRINGTON’S HOME AS A MUSEUM IS SCRAPPED

The Mexico City residence of surrealist painter and novelist Leonora Carrington will no longer open to the public as a museum as announced in 2021, but will instead be transformed into a research center, according to Spanish daily El País. The scuttling of the original plan, announced in 2021, is said to hinge on a dispute between the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), which owns the house, and its workers’ union. Carrington, who is credited with feminizing surrealism, has in the past decade gained tremendous art-world acclaim: Her 1945 canvas Les distractions de Dagobert _________________ for a record $28.5 million at auction this past spring. Though the artist was born in England, she lived largely in Mexico City for more than sixty years before her death in 2011. Her son Pablo Weisz Carrington sold her home on Chihuahua Street in the city’s Roma neighborhood to UAM for$500,000 in 2017, on the condition that it be turned into a museum, loaning the school some 8,000 objects. UAM’s vision for the transformation involved the display of forty-five anthropomorphic sculptures by Carrington, donated by Weisz, and visitor access to her living room, kitchen, and studio.

Rodolfo Pérez, a onetime general secretary of the UAM workers’ union, told El País that school officials had decided to open the house as a research center after refusing to create seventeen jobs at the museum, as requested by the union, and “violating the collective labor agreement.” Yissel Arce Padrón, the general coordinator of outreach at UAM, refuted the notion of a dispute between the school and its unionized workers, explaining that Carrington’s home would become a “documentation center, because the university’s interest is basically investigative.” David Sánchez, director of academic and cultural liaisons at UAM, noted that the project “is more about documentation than about openness to the public, to recover the themes that were important to Leonora Carrington in her work in Mexico.”

Which text describes the use of another place for the museum’s exposition?

Which text describes the use of various activities to increase the stimulation of the influx of visitors to museums?

Which text is about the usage of new technologies during the storage of museum exhibits?

Which text states that a number of collections were leased by other organizations for the period of closure?

Which text criticizes using of this object in the current project exhibition?

Which text states that the object will be used in a different way, not only as a previously planned?

Which text states that the concept of value is significantly questioned after the exhibit was put on public display?

Which text states what led to the change in plans to turn that place into a museum?