Soal dan Pembahasan TBI (Reading Comprehension) Bagian 19

  1. Soal
  2. Reading Comprehension

            Dadaism  or Dada  is  a  post-World  War I cultural  movement  in  visual  art as well  as  literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design. The movement was, among other things, a protest against the barbarism of the War and what Dadaists believed was an  oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday  society;   its  works  were  characterized  by  a  deliberate   irrationality  and  the  rejection  of  the prevailing standards of art. It influenced later movements including Surrealism.

            Dada probably began  in the Cabaret Voltaire  in Zurich in  1916  (by some accounts on October 6), and there were active dadaists in New York such as Marcel Duchamp and the Liberian art student,  Beatrice Wood, who had left France at the onset of World War I. At around the same time there had been a dadaist movement in Berlin,  Hanover,  Cologne,  and Paris.  In  1920,  Max Ernst,  Hans Arp and social  activist Alfred Grunwald  set  up the Cologne  Dada group.  The  French  avant-garde  kept abreast  of  Dada activities  in Zurich  due  to  the  regular  communications  from  Tristan  Tzara,  who  exchanged  letters,  poems,  and magazines  with  French writers,  critics  and  artists. But while  broad reaching,  the  movement  was  also unstable: 'artists went on to other  ideas  and movements,  including Surrealism,  Socialist Realism  and other forms of modernism.

            By the dawn of World War II,  many of the European  Dadaists who  remained had fled or been forced into exile  in  the United States,  some died in  death  camps under  Hitler,  who personally disliked the kind of radical art that dada represented. The movement became less active as post-World War II  optimism fed to new movements in art and literature.

            The Cabaret Voltaire fell into disrepair until it was occupied by a group claiming to be nee-dadaists in June-August of 2002. After their eviction the Cabaret Voltaire became a museum dedicated to the history of Dada and the Dada movement.

    (Adapted from vadous sources - PTT BPPK)



  1. What is the main idea of the passage?

    1. The history of Dadaism as the form of art
    2. The account of unstable movement of Dadaism
    3. The radical art of Dadaism as a protest against war
    4. The correspondence of Dadaism artists
    Jawaban : a

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  2. What is NOT mentioned in the passage as kinds of art movement besides Dadaism?

    1. Realism
    2. Surrealism
    3. Socialism
    4. Modernism
    Jawaban : a

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  3. Which of the following words could substitute the word prevailing in paragraph 1?

    1. Fascinating
    2. Existing
    3. Intriguing
    4. Challenging
    Jawaban : b

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  4. What was the cause behind the decline of Dadaist movement during the dawn of  World War II in Europe?

    1. The artists were fled into modernism
    2. Some of the artists disliked the radical art
    3. The artists were pushed into exile by Hitler
    4. Some of the artist moved into optimism
    Jawaban : c

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  5. What was the reason behind the forming of Dadaism?

    1. The influence of Surrealism
    2. The barbarism of World War I
    3. The irrationality of the Dadaists
    4. The radicalism of the movements
    Jawaban : b

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  6. The author of the passage implies  that the most important feature for Dadaist art was ....

    1. the intellectual rigidity of art
    2. the art as a custom
    3. the absurdity of art objects
    4. the reality of art objects
    Jawaban : a

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  7. The pronoun who in paragraph 2 refers to ....

    1. Marcel Duchamp
    2. Voltaire
    3. Max Ernst
    4. Beatrice Wood
    Jawaban : d

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