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Frank Lloyd Wright did not call himself an artist. He called himself an architect. But the buildings he designed were works of art. He looked at the ugly square buildings around him, and he did not like what he saw. He wondered why people built ugly homes, when they could have beautiful ones. Frank Lloyd Wright lived from 1869 to 1959. When he was young, there were no courses in architecture so he went in an architect’s office in order to learn how to design buildings. Soon he was designing buildings that were beautiful. He also wanted to make his buildings fit into the land around them. One of the houses he designed is on top of high hill. He built the house low and wide. Now other architects know how to design buildings to fit into the land. Frank Lloyd Wright showed them how to do it.

1. Wright thought the buildings people built on hills were _________________.

a) ugly because they fit the places they were built in

b) ugly because they were all tall and square

c) beautiful because they were ugly and square

d) beautiful although they could have had ugly ones if they had to

e) tall and square but beautiful

2. Was Frank Lloyd Wright an artist?

a) Yes he was, as he called himself

b) No, because he didn’t like the buildings other people built

c) No, because the buildings he designed were ugly

d) He didn’t say so, but he was

e) Some people said he was, but he wasn’t

3. How did he learn to design buildings?

a) He went to courses in architecture

b) He learned architecture by working in an architect’s office

c) By himself d) He never learned e) By calling himself an architect

4. Choose the right answer

a) Nobody likes Wright’s houses because they fit into the land around them

b) Because his buildings were works of art, he called himself an architect

c) Nobody likes Wright’s houses because they are different from other people’s houses

d) Other architect’s say that Wright’s way of building houses to fit the place was better, and now they try to do that, too

e) Weight learned how to build beautiful buildings because other architects showed him how to fit the building to the place

5. Choose the right answer

a) Wright built houses differently because people wanted him to do so.

b) Wright chose the place according to the house he would build.

c) Wright built all his houses on the tops of hills.

d) Wright made all his houses low and wide instead of square and tall.

e) Wright built houses differently according to the place where the house would be.