Answer:
The chosen work of art is the painting "Sowing" by the artist William Johnson.
Explanation:
"Sowing" is a hostoric painting, created by the artist William johnson that shows the lives of black farmers and the challenges of this profession.
The artist uses irregular lines and angular figures with different angles and proportions together with a combination of strong colors, which show a simple but unpredictable life, full of challenges, tensions and insecurities. However, the painter softens all these things with a simplistic design, but strong and flashy.
You did not provide the excerpt but I wound it and the correct answers are the following two sentences:
1.<span>For once, at least, I grasped the mental operations of the Morlocks.
Here we see that they do possess a kind of intelligence, maybe at first strange and unclear but it is there, no matter how strange it might seem.
2.</span><span>I was surprised to find it had been carefully oiled and cleaned.
Here the Time Traveler has found his Time Machine and he finds that the Morlocks had tried to grasp its function and its purpose. They have taken it apart and then cleaned and oiled it, which suggests they know somethings about how the machine work.
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Honastly no one knows but i would guess about 100