The following text refers to questions 12 to 14. Newsweek In The Beginning Was the Word … Now Come the…

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The following text refers to questions 12 to 14. Newsweek In The Beginning Was the Word … Now Come the Drawings By Malcolm Jones For the better part of the Christian era in Western civilization, illustrating scenes from the Bible was not a job for artists. It was the job. As late as the Renaissance, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and their wannabes spent their days illustrating ceilings and altarpieces, painting frescoes, and chiseling images of Moses, David, and Madonna and child out of every scrap of available marble. But as the church lost some of its hold on the Western imagination, artists felt free to look elsewhere for inspiration. Now and then an artist would undertake a religious theme (Chagall, Rouault), but excepting the English painter Stanley Spencer or outsider artist Howard Finster, it’s hard to think of a major modern artist who’s spent much time on holy ground. It’s even harder to think of an artist who could significantly alter our perceptions of the events, previously illustrated or not, in the Bible. But then, who could have foreseen that R. Crumb would tackle the Book of Genesis? Yes, this is the man a publisher has entrusted with the task of illustrating the first book of the Bible. Unlikely as it might seem, this was trust well repaid. Without a trace of irony, and certainly no mockery, Crumb delivers a literal—one might even say traditional—rendition of the events in the Judeo-Christian account of Creation and its aftermath. Frame by frame, comic-book fashion, The Book of Genesis shows a white-bearded, patriarchal God creating the heavens and the earth and all that walk upon it. We see Adam and Eve exiled from the Garden of Eden. We observe the first murder, as Cain kills his brother, and then Noah and the Flood, the travails of Abraham—every verse of every chapter carefully rendered, right through to the story of Joseph and the Israelite migration to Egypt. In the text, it’s UNCLEAR (Mackenzie 2011)

1. A) if illustrating scenes from the Bible was an ordinary job.
2. B) whether R. Crumb was the one chosen to perform the illustrating job.
3. C) how much the events in the Bible have been altered.
4. D) how God is portrayed in the story.
5. E) when the book was or will be released.

✅ Resposta correta: alternativa E

Resolução passo a passo

1. O enunciado pede a informação que o texto NAO deixa clara (UNCLEAR). Passo 2: Verifique, em cada alternativa, se o texto responde à pergunta. Passo 3: A alternativa E e a correta. O texto nunca informa quando o livro foi ou sera lancado; ele fala da escolha de Crumb pela editora e do conteudo ilustrado do Genesis, mas nao da data de publicacao. Passo 4: A alternativa A esta respondida no texto, que afirma que ilustrar cenas biblicas nao era um trabalho comum de artistas, mas sim O trabalho. Passo 5: A alternativa B tambem esta respondida: a editora confiou a Crumb a tarefa de ilustrar o primeiro livro da Biblia. Passo 6: A alternativa C esta razoavelmente respondida, pois o texto descreve a obra de Crumb como literal e tradicional, sem indicar alteracoes significativas. Passo 7: A alternativa D esta clara, pois o texto descreve um Deus patriarcal e de barba branca. Passo 8: Conclusao: concordo com o gabarito oficial E, pois e a unica alternativa sobre a qual o texto nao traz nenhuma informacao.

💡 Dica: Leia atentamente o texto para interpretar as informações implícitas.

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