Originality With a Purpose

3 questions. Choose the meaning or usage that best fits each situation. Try answering before reopening the passage.

1What is Niko's idiosyncrasy?A. An instruction printed on the workshop's standard forms.B. A required practice shared by every designer in the gallery.C. A distinctive personal habit in how he begins a notebook page.D. A universal rule about the meaning of all pictures.

2The unusual notebook habit departed noticeably from ordinary practice and seemed _____.A. standardB. eccentricC. customaryD. conventional

3Which proposal is iconoclastic in this context?A. Alphabetize a supply list using the normal office procedure.B. Challenge the established assumption that every label should deliver the curator's settled interpretation.C. Replace damaged paper while leaving the established approach untouched.D. Print the same labels in the same format as every earlier exhibition.

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