Reading Comprehension (Unseen) Passage Set - 14

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Reading Comprehension (Unseen) Passage Set - 14

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :- 

Auguste Rodin first exhibited his celebrated sculpture ''Gates of Hell" in 1900. Monumental in scale Rodin's masterpiece opended up a new world for art.  What  Van Gogh, Gaugin and Cizanne did for painting, Rodin single-handedly did for sculpture. The inspirations he drew from are the Renaissance, and above all from Michaelangelo, flows through his own work to fertilise the work of generations to come. Rodin had once stated, "The most remote antiquity is my habitat'. I want to link the past to the present; to return to memory, judge it and contrive to complete it.  Symbols are the guidelines of humanity. They are no lies".  Truth and man's moral stature, these were Rodin's concerns. During the day he earned his living as a plasterer, at night he worked on his own sculptures. 

A) State whether  the following are  True/False.  Write 'T' for  True and 'F' for False :-

i) Gates of Hell is the name of a painting by Rodin. 

ii) According to Rodin modernity is habitat. 

iii) Rodin earned his living as a plasterer. 

iv) "Gates of Hell" was Rodin's masterpiece. 

B) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words :-

i) What did Robin say about symbols? 

ii) From where did Rodin derive his inspiration? 

iii) What are Rodin's primary concerns?