CAT Exam 2015 preparation 3

The last sentence from the paragraph has been deleted. Choose the option that best completes the paragraph.

While the new exhibition focuses on Gauguin’s prints, ceramics, and woodcuts, his color paintings should not be overlooked, because Gauguin’s use of color is extraordinary. The fantastic, perfervid Upa Upa (The Fire Dance; 1891), along with Words of the Devil (1892), is reminiscent of Henri Rousseau’s vivid jungle surrealism. To gaze into its lurid, fiery display is to feel as if you were wading into a closed cultic rite. Gauguin could paint a still life like Cézanne and a pointillist gouache like Seurat. He is not often thought of as a great colorist, and while he may not have been Matisse, “Metamorphoses” illustrates that he may have been just as talented. ________________.

OPTIONS
	1)	One can only wonder what one would find when one explores the lesser known aspects of his oeuvre.
	2)	Several of his paintings borrow poses from a sculptured frieze found at the Borobudur Buddhist temple in Indonesia.
	3)	This makes the fact that Gauguin lacked formal artistic training, all the more remarkable.
	4)	In Mata Mua, the light and dark greens, squash yellows, bell-pepper oranges, tomato reds, and eggplant purples are a feast for the eyes.         If a, b, c, d are distinct real numbers such that a and b are the roots of the equation x2 − 3cx − 8d = 0 while c and d are the roots of the equation x2 − 3ax − 8b = 0, what is the value of a + b + c + d? OPTIONS     1) – 48   2) 32   3) 96   4) – 48 or 96   5) – 48 or 32