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Book's First PageCOMPREHENSION TEST PASSAGE–V SOME IMPORTANT WORDS The Stone Age was a period of history which began in bizarre : very strange or unusual behaviour. approximately 2 million B.C. and lasted until 3000 B.C. Its name was derived from the stone tools and weapons that lithography : the process of printing from a smooth modern scientists discovered. This period was divided into surface, for eg. a metal plate, that has the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Ages. During the been specially prepared so that ink first period (2 million to 8000 B.C.) the fist hatchet and the may only stick to the design to be use of fire for heating and cooking were developed. As a printed. result of the Ice Age, which evolved about one million years etchings : pictures that are printed from an in the Paleolithic Age, people were fored to seek shelter in etched (cut lines into) piece of glass, caves, wear clothing and develop new tools. During the metal, etc. in order to make words or Mesolithic Age (8000 to 6000 B.C.) people made crude pot- a picture) tery and the first fish hooks, took dogs for hunting and pewter : a grey metal made by mixing tin with developed a bow and arrow, which was used until the four- lead, used especially in the past for teenth century A.D. The Neolithic Age (6000 to 3000 B.C.) making cups, dishes, etc. saw human kind domesticating sheep, goats, pigs and cattle, Daguerreotype : a photograph taken using an early pro- becoming less nomadic than in the previous eras, estab- cess that used a silver plate and mer- lishing permanent settlements and creating Governments. cury gas. 311. The Stone Age was divided into portraiture : the art of making portraits. (1) 5 periods (2) 3 periods vogue : a fashion for something. (3) 4 periods (4) 6 periods 312. Which of the following was first developed in Pale- 316. The term bizarre most commonly means olithic period ? (1) humorous (2) strange (1) The bow and arrow (2) Pottery (3) popular (4) obvious (3) The first hatchet (4) The fish hook 317. When was the concept of photography born ? 313. How many years did Mesolithic Age exist ? (1) When an imaginary story called Giphantie was born. (1) 2000 (2) 3000 (2) When mirror images of scenes were captured on (3) 5000 (4) 4000 a canvas. 314. Which period lasted longest? (3) When Roche made a prediction. (1) Paleolithic (2) Ice Age (4) When Nicephore conducted some experiments. (3) Mesolithic (4) Neolithic 318. What does lithography deal with? 315. When did the people create Governments ? (1) A print making technique. (1) 8000 to 6000 B.C. (2) 2 millions to 8000 B.C. (2) Copying of etchings. (3) 6000 to 3000 B.C. (4) 2 millions to 1 million B.C. (3) Usage of chemicals to make etchings. PASSAGE–VI (4) Usage of light in printing. In 1760, a man named Tiphaigne de la Roche made a 319. What was the contribution of Daguerre ? bizarre prediction. In an imaginary story called Giphantie, mirror images of scenes from nature could be captured (1) He improvised upon the work of Roche. permanently on a canvas covered with a sticky material. (2) He introduced the method of photography. After the material dried in darkness, the image would re- (3) He started the print making technique. main on the canvas forever. At the time, the idea was un- (4) He could print images on canvas. heard of. It was not until the following century that the 320. Why did the portrait artists go out of business ? concept of photography was born, starting with some ex- periments by Nicephore Niepce. Nicephore Niepce, who was (1) Because Daguerrotypes were not expensive at all. a French inventor, was interested in lithography, which is (2) Because etchings had become popular. a printmaking technique. He was experimenting with li- (3) Because the photography method did not involve thography when he found a way of copying etchings onto much money and was suitable for making portraits. glass and pewter plates using a chemical that changes when (4) Because they demanded a lot of money which it is exposed to light. He learned to burn images onto the people found burdensome. plates and then print the images on paper. He shared his Directions (321–330) : You have a passage with 10 findings with Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, who improved questions following the passage. Read the passage careful- the process and announced it to the French Academy of ly and choose the best answer to each question out of the Sciences in 1839. The Daguerreotype, the photography method named after Daguerre, met with great success. It four alternatives. was so successful, in fact, that French newspapers said (SSC Graduate Level Tier-I the French public had an illness called Daguerreot-ypoma- Exam. 11.11.2012 (1st Sitting) nia! Daguerreotypes were inexpensive and were suitable Jazz had its beginnings in song. Its roots lie deep in for portraiture. People called the Daguerreotype a “mirror the tradition of Negro folk singing that once flourished with a memory”. Some portrait artists went out of business throughout the rural Southland of the United States before when Daguerreotypes came into vogue. Others became Da- the Civil War. The Negro, in those days, owned only a few guerreotypists, now known as photographers. crude musical instruments which he made for himself from SEE–937