which includes various creative thinking styles, such as legislative, global, and local thinking styles; and critical thinking, which includes reasoning, making inferences, self-reflection, and coordination of multiple views.
Questions
1) What problem regarding colour does the writer explain in the first paragraph?
? Our view of colour is strongly affected by changing fashion.
? Analysis is complicated by the bewildering number of natural colours.
? Colours can have different associations in different parts of the world.
? Certain popular books have dismissed colour as insignificant.
2) What is the first reason the writer gives for the lack of academic work on the history of colour?
? There are problems of reliability associated with the artefacts available.
? Historians have seen colour as being outside their field of expertise.
? Colour has been rather looked down upon as a fit subject for academic study.
? Very little documentation exists for historians to use.
3) The writer suggests that the priority when conducting historical research on colour is to
? ignore the interpretations of other modern day historians.
? focus one's interest as far back as the prehistoric era.
? find some way of organising the mass of available data.
? relate pictures to information from other sources.
4) In the fourth paragraph, the writer says that the historian writing about colour should be careful
? not to analyse in an old-fashioned way.
? when making basic distinctions between key ideas.
? not to make unwise predictions.
? when using certain terms and concepts.
5) In the fifth paragraph, the writer says there needs to be further research done on
? the history of colour in relation to objects in the world around us.
? the concerns he has raised in an earlier publication.
? the many ways in which artists have used colour over the years.
? the relationship between artistic works and the history of colour.