Multiple choice

Which of the following statements about Egyptian paintings is/are not correct as per the passage? (i) Egyptian paintings were precursors of Greco-Roman paintings. (ii) Egyptian paintings were predominantly inspired by religious and imperial considerations. (iii) In a way the Egyptians have purposely recorded their history in paintings.

Answer the question is based on the following passage.

            Life would have existed without fine arts such as architecture,
            sculpture, painting, poetry and music, but would have not
            been as pleasant an experience as it is with enjoying these
            art forms. Take for example, pictures. How much more easily
(5)        do we understand the subject we are studying through the
            help we get from pictures of objects or places which we have
            not seen and we wish to know about. Egyptian paintings were
            not only used to adorn the temple walls, tombs, columns,
            cornices etc but they were also intended to be useful in telling
(10)      the history of the various countries, their wars, conquests,
            triumphs. Lives of kings and stories are as distinctly told by
            pictures as by Egyptian writings. The Greek paintings and
            those of ancient Romans are almost alike. The art of ancient
            Rome was almost transplanted from Greece. Romans imitated
(15)      Greece so that Roman painting of the pre-Christian era must
           be considered together with that of Greece.

  1. i only

  2. ii only

  3. iii only

  4. i & ii

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Statement (iii) can be directly inferred from lines 9-10 “they were also intended to be useful in telling the history of the various countries”. The other two statements cannot be derived from the passage.