Read the passage about a historic building and choose the
best answer for each question.
The building Edificio Otto Wulff in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was built by the
Danish architect Morten F. Rönnow. It was named after the business man
who commissioned the building. Its construction started in 1912 and
finished in 1914. Until the end of World War I in 1918, the consulate of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire occupied the space. Now there are a lot of
offices in the building, mainly architects' studios, but nobody lives there.
The main architectural style of the building is Jugendstil, the German
version of the French art nouveau, but it also shows elements of
Renaissance and Neoclassical styles. On the outside walls there are eight
huge figures, representing workers that are needed when constructing a
building. On the balconies there are many animals: flamingos, bees, a bear,
owls and penguins. At the top, just below the roof, there are four condors,
the largest birds in the world.
On the roof of the building there are two towers. On one there is a crown,
dedicated to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. On the top of the other
tower there is a sun which is dedicated to his wife, the Empress Elisabeth of
Austria, also famously known as Sissi.
What can people see when they look at a
balcony on the building?
A bear
A condor
A human figure
A crown
What did the business man Otto Wulff
probably think of the Emperor Franz Joseph I
of Austria?
He accepted the emperor.
He disrespected the emperor.
He disagreed with the emperor.
He admired the emperor.