Ex3- Read the passage and choose the best option to answer each of the following questions.
ANIMATION
The theory of the animated cartoon was introduced before the invention of the cinema by half a century. When working to create conversation pieces for Victorian shops, people discovered the principle of persistence of vision. If drawings of the stages of an action were shown in fast succession, the human eye would perceive them as a continuous movement.
One of the first commercially successful devices, invented by the Belgian Joseph Plateau in 1832, was the phenakistoscope, a spinning cardboard disk that created the illusion of movement when viewed in a mirror, in 1834, William Horner invented the zoetrope, a rotating drum lined by a band of pictures. The Frenchman Émile Reynaud in 1876 adapted the principle into a form that could be projected before a theatrical audience. Reynaud became not only animation’s first entrepreneur but also the first artist to give personality and warmth to his animated characters.
(Animation by Dave Kehr- extracted from Encyclopaedia Britannica)
1.     What is the passage mainly about?
A. Early history of animation
B. The reason why animation is popular
C. The invention of Joseph Plateau
D. The first animation’s entrepreneur
2.     When was the theory of animation developed?
A. after the introduction of the cinema
B. in 1832
C. about 50 years before the invention of the cinema
D. in 1876
3.     What happens to human eyes when pictures of the stages of an action were shown in fast succession?
A. They will find the pictures more vivid.
B. They cannot see the pictures.
C. They will perceive the pictures as normal.
D. They will see the pictures as a continuous movement.
4.     What is a phenakistoscope?
A. a popular form of entertainment
B. a spinning cardboard disk
C. a rotating drum lined by a band of pictures
D. a collection of Victorian drawings
5.     Who is NOT MENTIONED as an inventor of an animation-making device?
A. Victoria        B. William Horner
C. Émile Reynaud        D. Joseph Plateau