# PTE Reading MCM #11: Prehistoric Cave Art...

Reading: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers #11 - Level 2 - Feeds Reading

> Read the text and answer the question by choosing all the options that are correct. More than one answer is correct, and a wrong choice costs a point.

In Southwest France in the 1940s, playing children discovered Lascaux Grotto, a series of narrow cave chambers that contain huge prehistoric paintings of animals. Many of these beasts are as large as 16 feet (almost 5 meters). Some follow each other in solemn parades, but others swirl about, sideways and upside down. The animals are bulls, wild horses, reindeer, bison, and mammoths outlined with charcoal and painted mostly in reds, yellows, and browns. Scientific analysis reveals that the colors were derived from ocher and other iron oxides ground into a fine powder. Methods of applying color varied: some colors were brushed or smeared on rock surfaces and others were blown or sprayed. It is possible that tubes made from animal bones were used for spraying because hollow bones, some stained with pigment, have been found nearby.

What are the bones found in the Lascaux caves believed to indicate?

- Artists developed special techniques for painting the walls.
- Artists painted pictures on both walls and bones.
- The subjects the artists painted were diverse and varied.
- The bones served purposes beyond being food remains.
- Artists ground the bones into powder to create paint pigments.

## Answer

- Artists developed special techniques for painting the walls.
- The bones served purposes beyond being food remains.

## Explanation

The passage explicitly describes varied methods of applying color, such as brushing, smearing, and spraying. Furthermore, it notes that hollow bones were likely used as tools for spraying pigment, indicating they served a functional purpose beyond biological remains.

## Hints

- Focus on the sentences describing how the colors were applied to the rock surfaces.
- Consider the purpose of the hollow bones found near the paintings.

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