Read the following passage.
A. Kenojuak Ashevak was born on October 3, 1927, at a camp on the southern coast of Baffin Island. As a child she travelled from camp to camp on south Baffin Island and in Arctic Quebec. When she was six, her father was killed, and her family went to live with her grandmother. Her grandmother taught her traditional skills such as repairing sealskin and preparing caribou hides. The group lived by hunting and moved often, living in igloos and in tents made of animal hide. In 1946 she married Johnniebo Ashevak, a hunter, and they began to have children.
B. In 1952 she was found to have tuberculosis and was sent south to Parc Savard Hospital in Quebec City. She stayed there until 1955, far away from her family. At the hospital she was encouraged to take part in arts and crafts, and she learned to make dolls and do beadwork. The hospital then sold these crafts on behalf of its patients. After she recovered, she began working with the art promoter James Houston, who taught Inuit artists how to make prints. In 1959 she joined other Cape Dorset artists in forming the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative workshop. Her first print was called Rabbit Eating Seaweed.
C. Her best-known image is The Enchanted Owl, a colour stonecut print she made in 1960. In 1970 Canada Post put it on a six-cent stamp marking the one hundredth anniversary of the Northwest Territories. It was the first time the work of a female Inuit artist had appeared on a Canadian stamp. Her art was used on stamps again in 1980 and 1993. She and her husband also made a mural for the Canadian Pavilion at the 1970 world exposition in Osaka, Japan, working on it together in Ottawa the year before.
D. She received many honours during her life. She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1967 and was promoted to Companion, a higher rank, in 1982. In 1992 Queen's University and the University of Toronto both gave her honorary degrees. In 2001 she became the first Inuit artist named to Canada's Walk of Fame, and in 2008 she received the Governor General's Award for excellence in the visual arts. She died at her home in Cape Dorset on January 8, 2013, at the age of eighty-five.
E. Not given in any of the above paragraphs.
Decide which paragraph, A to D, has the information given in each statement below. Select E if the information is not given in any of the paragraphs.
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Correct Answer: D
Why this is correct: The fourth paragraph says she joined the Order of Canada as an Officer in 1967. In 1982 she was promoted to Companion, which the text calls a higher rank. Being raised to a higher level means the same thing.
Passage Reference: She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1967 and was promoted to Companion, a higher rank, in 1982.
Tips: Look for the year 1982 and the word promoted. A promotion is a move to a higher level.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Her birth, her childhood travels, her grandmother's lessons and her marriage in 1946 fill paragraph A. No national honour appears there.
- B: Paragraph B covers her illness, the years in the Quebec City hospital and the start of the printmaking workshop. It gives no honours.
- C: Notice that paragraph C talks about the owl print, three stamps and the Osaka mural. A stamp is a kind of recognition, but the Order of Canada is not in this paragraph.
- E: Her promotion inside the Order of Canada is in paragraph D. It gives both the first year and the year of the higher rank.
Correct Answer: C
Passage Reference: In 1970 Canada Post put it on a six-cent stamp marking the one hundredth anniversary of the Northwest Territories.
Why this is correct: The third paragraph explains that in 1970 The Enchanted Owl was printed on a stamp. It marked the one hundredth anniversary of the Northwest Territories. Turning one hundred is the same idea as a one hundredth anniversary.
Tips: More than one stamp is mentioned. Pick the one tied to the Northwest Territories, then check what it celebrated.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: The first paragraph mentions Baffin Island and Arctic Quebec, but it is about her childhood and family. No stamp is mentioned.
- B: Paragraph B covers the hospital years, James Houston and her first print. It does not talk about any anniversary.
- D: Look at paragraph D: it lists her honours, such as the Order of Canada and the Walk of Fame, and her death. The stamp is not one of the items there.
- E: The stamp for the Northwest Territories anniversary is described in Paragraph C, in the sentence about the year 1970.
Correct Answer: A
Passage Reference: Her grandmother taught her traditional skills such as repairing sealskin and preparing caribou hides.
Why this is correct: Notice that paragraph A says her grandmother taught her to repair sealskin and prepare caribou hides. A grandmother is an older family member, and sealskin and caribou hides are both animal skins.
Tips: Find who showed her how to prepare and fix animal skins. Check that this person is an older member of her family.
Why the other options are wrong:
- B: The second paragraph also describes her learning a craft. But that was dolls and beadwork in a hospital, not work with skins, and nobody in her family taught it.
- C: A print, stamps and a mural she made with her husband are the subject of paragraph C. Learning to treat skins is not mentioned.
- D: The fourth paragraph is a list of honours, degrees and the date of her death. Her childhood lessons are not part of it.
- E: Her grandmother's lessons with sealskin and caribou hides appear in Paragraph A, right after her father's death.
Correct Answer: A
Passage Reference: When she was six, her father was killed, and her family went to live with her grandmother.
Why this is correct: Look at paragraph A: it says her father was killed when she was six. A six-year-old is a small child, so the statement matches this sentence.
Tips: The fourth paragraph also mentions a death, so check whose death each paragraph describes.
Why the other options are wrong:
- B: The second paragraph mentions that she was far away from her family in the hospital. But that was when she was an adult. No death is described.
- C: Paragraph C is about her art and a mural made with her husband. Her father does not appear in it.
- D: Notice that paragraph D does talk about a death, but it is her own death in 2013, not her father's.
- E: Her father's death when she was six is reported in Paragraph A, in the sentence before her grandmother's lessons.
Correct Answer: E
Passage Reference: At the hospital she was encouraged to take part in arts and crafts, and she learned to make dolls and do beadwork.
Why this is correct: Paragraph B says she was encouraged to do arts and crafts in the hospital and learned to make dolls and beadwork. It never says who encouraged or taught her. A nurse is not mentioned anywhere.
Tips: When a sentence says she was encouraged, ask who did it. If the text never names a person, the detail is missing.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Look at paragraph A: it says her grandmother taught her to repair sealskin and prepare caribou hides, years before the hospital. It says nothing about making toys.
- B: Notice that paragraph B tells us she learned dolls and beadwork in the hospital, but the teacher is not named. It only says she was encouraged.
- C: Paragraph C is about the owl print, the stamps and the Osaka mural. The hospital is not part of it.
- D: The fourth paragraph covers her honours, her degrees and her death in Cape Dorset. No hospital worker is mentioned.
Correct Answer: B
Passage Reference: The hospital then sold these crafts on behalf of its patients.
Why this is correct: Look at paragraph B: it says the hospital sold the crafts on behalf of its patients. She was one of those patients, so the dolls and beadwork she made were sold for her.
Tips: Follow the word hospital. Only one paragraph says what happened to the things she made there.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Paragraph A describes the skills her grandmother taught her as a child. Nothing she made then is said to be sold.
- C: Notice that paragraph C talks about a print on a stamp and a mural for Osaka. There is no selling of hospital crafts in it.
- D: The fourth paragraph names her honours and says where she died. It does not mention money or sales.
- E: The sale of her hospital crafts is stated in Paragraph B, just after the dolls and beadwork.
Correct Answer: B
Passage Reference: In 1959 she joined other Cape Dorset artists in forming the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative workshop.
Why this is correct: Paragraph B says that in 1959 she and other Cape Dorset artists formed the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative workshop. Forming a workshop with others means she helped to start it.
Tips: Cape Dorset appears in two paragraphs. The one with the year 1959 is about the workshop.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: The first paragraph stays with her early life on Baffin Island and her marriage. It ends before she began any art work.
- C: Notice that paragraph C describes pieces of art she made later, like the owl print and the mural. It does not say how the workshop began.
- D: Paragraph D mentions Cape Dorset as the place where she died, but it gives no information about a workshop.
- E: The second paragraph gives the year 1959 and names the co-operative workshop she and other artists formed.
Correct Answer: E
Passage Reference: Her art was used on stamps again in 1980 and 1993.
Why this is correct: Look at paragraph C. It gives three stamp years: 1970 for the owl, then 1980 and 1993. It does not compare the stamps or say which one collectors liked best.
Tips: The words more popular than signal a comparison. Check whether the text actually compares the stamps.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Paragraph A covers her birth, childhood and marriage. Stamps do not appear in it.
- B: Notice that paragraph B mentions her first print, Rabbit Eating Seaweed, but no stamps and no collectors.
- C: The third paragraph names the owl stamp and two later stamp years, but it never says which stamp was more popular.
- D: Paragraph D lists honours and degrees. It says nothing about stamps or how people received them.
Correct Answer: D
Passage Reference: In 1992 Queen's University and the University of Toronto both gave her honorary degrees.
Why this is correct: Look at paragraph D: it says Queen's University and the University of Toronto both gave her honorary degrees in 1992. That is two universities, and an honorary degree is a special degree given as an honour.
Tips: Count the universities named in the honours paragraph and look for the word degrees.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Notice that paragraph A talks about what she learned as a child from her grandmother. No school or university is named.
- B: The second paragraph mentions James Houston teaching artists to make prints, but this is not a university and no degree is given.
- C: The third paragraph is about her art on stamps and the Osaka mural. It names no university.
- E: The two universities, Queen's and Toronto, are named in Paragraph D along with the year 1992.
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