Read the passage given below and then answer the questions given below the…
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Read the passage given below and then answer the questions given below the passage. Some words may be highlighted for your attention. Pay careful attention.
“In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes,” claimed pop artist Andy Warhol. Known as the “Prince of Pop,” Warhol was an American legend. He became obsessed with fame and famous celebrities, and he had an enormous influence on American art and culture. During his lifetime, Warhol was a painter, filmmaker, record producer, actor, and author. He was also an outlandish public figure. He socialized with everyone from street people to Hollywood celebrities to a president’s wife. Warhol’s “popular art” sparked an artistic revolution by asking the question, “What exactly is art?” Warhol also changed the idea of what it meant to be an artist. Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Slovak immigrants. His talent for drawing and painting emerged in high school. Then Warhol entered the commercial art program at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. He graduated in 1949 and moved to New York City to find fame. Warhol’s first big break came in August of that year. The editor of Glamour magazine asked him to illustrate an article. His real name was Andrew Warhola. But when the Glamour article was published, the credit mistakenly read “Drawings by Andy Warhol.” So he dropped the “a,” and Warhol was born.
Warhol became a successful business illustrator. He developed a unique style of repeating ink images with slight colour changes. In 1956, he had an important exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In the sixties, Warhol rebelled against the era’s definition of fine art. His pop art included painting pictures of common, familiar images, such as dollar bills, celebrities, brand-name products, and newspaper clippings. Some of Warhol’s famous pieces include images of Campbell’s Soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, and portraits of celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe and Mick Jagger. In 1962, he founded The Factory. It became a studio teeming with artists, writers, musicians, and famous celebrities. Spurning the concept that every work of art must be unique, Warhol started mass-producing his silk screens. He often had assistants taking photographs of his works and reproducing most of his paintings.
Who rechristened the artist as Andy Warhol?
Answer: C. The Glamour magazine — Concept: In a literal-comprehension “who or what caused X” question, the answer must be traceable to an explicit statement in the passage — not to background…
- A.
His parents
- B.
Other celebrities
- C.
The Glamour magazine
- D.
His friends
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Correct answer: C
Concept: In a literal-comprehension “who or what caused X” question, the answer must be traceable to an explicit statement in the passage — not to background details about a person (family, associates) that are merely present nearby but never linked to that specific event.
Application: The passage ties the professional name “Andy Warhol” to one specific incident: “when the Glamour article was published, the credit mistakenly read ‘Drawings by Andy Warhol.’ So he dropped the ‘a,’ and Warhol was born.” No other person or group in the passage is linked to this change.
Contrast: Checking each other option against the passage:
His parents — mentioned only for Warhol's birth in Pittsburgh and his Slovak immigrant background, never for renaming him.
Other celebrities — mentioned only as people Warhol later socialized with and painted, not as anyone who renamed him.
His friends — never mentioned anywhere in connection with the change in his name.
Correct answer: The Glamour magazine — its misprinted credit “Drawings by Andy Warhol” is the explicit cause of Andrew Warhola adopting the professional name Andy Warhol.
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