Questão 1491792

1 The artist is distinguished from all other responsible

actors in society by the fact that he is his own test tube, his

own laboratory, working according to very rigorous rules,

4 however unstated these may be, and cannot allow any

consideration to supersede his responsibility to reveal all

that he can possibly discover concerning the mystery of the

7 human being. Society must accept some things as real; but

he must always know that visible reality hides a deeper one,

and that all our action and achievement rest on things

10 unseen. A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist

must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing

stable under heaven. One cannot possibly build a school,

13 teach a child, or drive a car without taking some things for

granted. The artist cannot and must not take anything for

granted, but must drive to the heart of every answer and

16 expose the question the answer hides.

BALDWIN, James. The Creative Process. In: The Price of the Ticket – Collected Nonfiction 1948–1985. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. [adapted]

Based on the text, judge the following items.

The modal verb “must” express possibility.