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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. All of the following are included in the images featured on pages 70 to 71, except for which ones?
(a) Food and drink.
(b) Political icons.
(c) Dead animals.
(d) Hunting.

2. How is Rembrandt portrayed in his second self-portrait?
(a) As a great king.
(b) As a woman.
(c) As an old man.
(d) As a young hunter.

3. What primarily constitutes a landscape painting as traditional oil techniques are developed?
(a) Solid tangible space.
(b) Intangible sky and distance.
(c) Abstract natural figures.
(d) Romantic man versus nature scenes.

4. After the period of traditional oil paintings, what medium becomes the primary form of visual imagery?
(a) Photography.
(b) Murals.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Film.

5. In Chapter 6, what images are on pages 120 and 121?
(a) Landscapes.
(b) Family and other social groupings.
(c) Formal portaits.
(d) Botanical prints.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is a two-dimensional oil painting different from other forms of art?

2. What is the extraordinary significance of works such as" A Family Group" by Nouts?

3. Which of the following is the title of a painting on pages 72 and 73?

4. What does Nattier's "Mademoiselle de Clermonte" depict?

5. Which of the following would be a good symbol for the collection of images on pages 68 to 71?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Holbein's work "The Ambassadors" is typical of traditional oil paintings and the manner of presenting the subjects, as explained by the authors.

2. Explain how Rembrandt's two self-portraits, the first at age twenty-eight and the second at age fifty-eight, evolve to include content that is not conventionally found in traditional oil paintings of his time.

3. According to the authors, how is a collector of art different than a collector of other things?

4. How are pages 72 and 73, which contain images of mythological characters and fanciful human figures, different than the previous images that are displayed in Chapter 4?

5. Describe the painting "Europe supported by Africa and America" by William Blake, and propose the message the artist is sending through the work.

6. Describe how the wealthy influence the ways of seeing through oil paintings, as explained by Berger et al.

7. In Chapter 6, compare the visual characteristics of the images "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes", and the oil painting by Bartolome Murillo titled "Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill".

8. Chapter 5 begins with an oil painting showing several items contemporaneous with the Dutch school in 1665. Describe the painting and the objects it depicts.

9. According to Berger et al., how do traditional oil paintings perpetuate the wealth and power of the ruling class?

10. Describe the difference in the artist portrayal of a portrait versus a self-portrait.

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