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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can every viewer see a painting in a different way?
(a) Viewers have a variety of education levels in art history.
(b) Each viewer sees a painting based on their prior experiences and expectations.
(c) Every viewer has a different color preference.
(d) All viewers have different eyesight abilities.

2. Which painting is used an example of who benefits from a nude painting?
(a) Picasso's abstract female nudes.
(b) Bronzino's painting of Cupid and Venus.
(c) Gaugin's "Nevermore."
(d) Rembrant's "Bathesheba."

3. What does the word 'image' mean in this book?
(a) Any reproduced art work.
(b) Reproduced sight.
(c) Any work of art.
(d) Any object that can be seen.

4. According to the authors, what are women culturally and socially conditioned to do?
(a) Project the wants of others.
(b) Critize the condition of other women.
(c) Be aware of their own image as others see it.
(d) Be politically educated.

5. What diversifies the meaning of a painting?
(a) Its type of framing.
(b) Its reproduction in many locations.
(c) Its title.
(d) The type of museum lighting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is visual art originally made for?

2. What does Kenneth Clark (not the authors) say about the concepts of naked and nude?

3. According to the authors, how is the focus of a man's power different than a female's?

4. What is prominent in Ruben's painting?

5. What do Berger et al. say about the portrayal of naked women in early European oil paintings?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how an image is a record of a sight.

2. According to Berger et al., how can the story of Adam and Eve explain the shamefulness associated with being naked?

3. Describe how Magritte's painting "The Key of Dreams" is a commentary on the gap between words and image.

4. Explain how Cubism contradicts the single eye of perspective.

5. Explain how the commission by Frans Hals could easily be misunderstood by the modern viewer.

6. Describe the differences between the collection of images on pages 36 and 37, and the collection of images on pages 38 and 39.

7. In Chapter 2, pages 42 and 43, how do the women in the images appear to men in the images?

8. Describe the combination of images present in Chapter 2 on pages 40 and 41.

9. Describe how Berger et al. interpret the image of a nude women gazing in a mirror.

10. Explain how the women in the images are viewed by the men in the images on pages 36 and 37.

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