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Q5. Which of the following is TRUE about Arkhip Kuinji’s family.

A) They served at the court of Catherine II.

B) They came from Greece to make money.

C) Arkhip’s parents died when he was very young.

D) They made a living selling shoes.

Q6. We learn from the text about Arkhip’s stay in Taganrog that he

A) met Anton Chekhov there.

B) tried to work as a photographer.

C) opened his first art studio there.

D) could have met Mendeleev there.

Q7. When Kuinji got to St. Petersburg he

A) had developed a style of his own.

B) began to attend classes in the Academy of Arts.

C) got interested in marine painting.

D) visited all art exhibitions.

Q8. After 1874 Kuinji

A) invented a new paint.

B) started to paint only in light colours.

C) began to make pictures showing light.

D) used technical effects to impress the viewers.

Q9. We learn about Kuinji’s “Ukranian Night” that

A) there was a hidden source of light behind it.

B) it won a special award at the Paris World Fair.

C) a famous art critic claimed it started a new stage in painting.

D) it became one of his most famous paintings.

Q10. Some of Kuinji’s experiments were not a success because

A) his style was too complicated to visualise.

B) hard as he tried, he failed to capture the moonlight.

C) a few of his paintings lost their original colour.

D) he used canvases of poor quality.

Q11. His professor’s career was not a success because

A) of political reasons.

B) he wanted to be an independent artist.

C) his students complained that he gave private lessons

D) the authorities were against his fund meant to support students.