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                          Abraham Lincoln was the                    Vincent  Van  Gogh
                          16th  President  of  the                   was  born  in  Zundert,
                          United  States.  He  was                   Netherlands on March
                          the child of an extremely                  30,  1853.  When  he
                          poor  family,  so  he  didn’t              was  a  young  boy,  he
                          go  to  school.  He  was                   enjoyed    drawing.
                          largely self-educated and                  Before  he  decided  to
              taught himself law. He worked hard and                 work  as  an  artist  full
              became  a  lawyer  in  1836.  In  1842,  he   time,  he  had  many  different  jobs.  He
              got married to Mary Todd and they had    was a teacher in London, a minister, he
                      EDİTÖR YAYINEVİ
              four sons. After he won the presidency   worked  in  a  bookstore,  an  art  gallery
              election, the Civil War began. This war   and  also  worked  as  a  missionary.  He
              was a fight between the North and the    learned  to  draw  using  pencils  and
              South about slavery. He wanted to stop   charcoal  sticks.  He  used  some
              slavery  in  his  country  and  finally  he   watercolors as well. One of his favourite
              became successful about that. In 1865,   subjects was to draw poor hardworking
              he died the morning after being shot at   people.  Eventually  he  began  to  paint
              Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C.        using oil paints. He was most famous
                                                       for  Starry  Night,  The  Bedroom,  Irises
             According  to  the  biography,  which     and  Sunflowers.  He  wasn’t  famous
             information  cannot  be  correct  about   during  his  lifetime,  today  he  is
             Abraham Lincoln?                          considered  one  of  the  greatest  and
                                                       most influential artists of his time.
             A)  He  was  a  lawyer  before  he  became
                the president of the United States.   Which one cannot be correct about Van
             B)  He  had  an  extraordinary  life  and  he   Gogh according to the text?
                was a clever and ambitious man.       A)  He had a number of other jobs before
                                                         he devoted himself completely to art.
             C)  President  Lincoln  died  at  the  Ford’s
                Theatre  in  Washington  D.C.  while   B)  He first started to draw pictures using
                watching a play.                         pencils and charcoal sticks.
             D)  He was the president during the Civil   C)  He  liked  to  draw  poor  hardworking
                War and he helped end slavery.           people when he first began painting.
                                                      D)  He  became  very  famous  with  his
                                                         paintings in the world before he died.
          12             Architect Sinan was one of   14  Sir  Alexander  Fleming  was  a  famous
                         the greatest of the Ottoman   scientist. He discovered penicillin in 1928.
                         architects. ............ Selimiye   He died on the eleventh of March, nineteen
                         Mosque.                      fifty-five.

             Choose  the  best  option  to  fill  in  the   Which one is related to the underlined
             blank.                                   phrase in the sentence?
             A)  His most famous work is              A)  1st of March, 1950
             B)  He didn’t want to build              B)  11th of March, 1955
             C)  He became an engineer with           C)  21st of March, 1945
             D)  His father’s name was                D)  11th of March, 1855
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