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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction, Paintings 1-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Years after the painting of 1933 was completed, Wyeth sold it to buy __________________.
(a) Airline tickets.
(b) A tractor.
(c) A studio.
(d) A house.

2. Wyeth found pencil drawing to be very ________________.
(a) Emotional.
(b) Pedantic.
(c) Rudimentary.
(d) Limiting.

3. Which of the following did NOT describe an Andrew Wyeth painting?
(a) Free.
(b) Impressionistic.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Dreamlike.

4. Where did Wyeth find the items for "Before Picking"?
(a) A commercial orchard.
(b) His backyard.
(c) His cornfield.
(d) His father's orchard.

5. "Road Cut" shows a road running through a valley in ___________________________.
(a) Milledgeville, Georgia.
(b) Kennebunkport, Maine.
(c) Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
(d) Lake City, Tennessee.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Before Picking" was a painting of ________________.

2. What did Wyeth think that the item in "Toll Rope" represented?

3. How much did Wyeth receive for the painting in 1933?

4. What did the cooling shed in the painting, "Cooling Shed," remind Wyeth of?

5. When did the idea for painting "Trodden Weed" occur to Wyeth?

(see the answer key)

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