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UNIT 24

Question 62

Certain shapes of equal size can be joined together without leaving gaps (tessellated) to make a largershape.

Consider the following L-shape made of squares of equal size.

Note that these L-shapes can be rotated in the plane of the page.

What is the smallest number of these L-shapes required to produce a square by tessellation?

A 4 C 8B 6 D 12

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UNIT 25Questions 63–67In the following passage an art critic, Sister Wendy Beckett, comments on the painting ‘A SundayAfternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’, by Georges Seurat (see opposite page).

Seurat’s Grande Jatte is one of those rare works of art that stand alone; itstranscendence is instinctively recognized by everyone. What makes this transcendenceso mysterious is that the theme of the work is not some profound emotion or momentousevent, but the most banal1 of workaday scenes: Parisians enjoying an afternoon in a localpark. Yet we never seem to fathom its elusive power.

Seurat spent two years painting this picture, concentrating painstakingly on thelandscape of the park before focusing on the people; always their shapes, never theirpersonalities. Individuals did not interest him, only their formal elegance. There is nountidiness in Seurat; all is beautifully balanced. The park was quite a noisy place: a manblows his bugle, children run around, there are dogs. Yet the impression we receive is ofsilence, of control, of nothing disordered. I think it is this that makes La Grande Jatte somoving to us who live in such a disordered world: Seurat’s control. There is anintellectual clarity here that sets him free to paint this small park with an astonishingpoetry. Even if the people in the park are pairs or groups, they still seem alone in theirconcision of form – alone but not lonely. No figure encroaches on another’s space: allcoexist in peace.

This is a world both real and unreal – a sacred world. We are often harried2 by life’spressures and its speed, and many of us think at times: Stop the world, I want to get off!In this painting, Seurat has ‘stopped the world,’ and it reveals itself as beautiful, sunlit,and silent – it is Seurat’s world, from which we would never want to get off.1 banal: commonplace; 2 harried: worried

Question 63The writer sees the impact of Seurat’s Grande Jatte painting as ‘mysterious’ (line 3) because the sceneA is symbolic. C dramatises emotion.B is not dramatic. D dramatises social conventions.

Question 64The writer sees Seurat in the Grande Jatte as having ‘stopped the world’ (line 19) in that the sceneA reacts against reality. C offers an idealised reality.B shows a world in decline. D shows the process of change in the world.

Question 65The writer describes Seurat’s world as silent (line 20) because the composition seemsA dramatic and heroic. C formal and organised.B dynamic and vibrant. D symbolic and abstract.

Question 66According to the passage, Seurat views the characters in the Grande Jatte asA isolated and alienated. C types rather than individuals.B stylish and superficial. D individuals rather than types.

Question 67The presentation of the figures in Seurat’s Grande Jatte is best described asA simple and stylised. C individual and realistic.B intricate and detailed D monumental and panoramic.

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