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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paintings 71-124.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Jimmy Lynch doing in the 1990 painting, "Man and the Moon"?
(a) Dancing at a harvest community dance.
(b) Staring up at a full moon.
(c) Standing naked next to his motorcycle.
(d) Lying naked in the moonlight.

2. "Christmas Morning" in 1944 was Wyeth's first painting that concerned ________________.
(a) Excess.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Death.
(d) Religion.

3. Why was Wyeth drawn in by Johnny Lynch, the subject for "Buzzard's Glory" in 1969?
(a) His shy smile.
(b) His bowed legs.
(c) His jet-black hair.
(d) His large hands.

4. What did Wyeth hope to capture in the 1968 painting, "Alvaro and Christina"?
(a) The Olsons' environment.
(b) A true love story.
(c) A lifelong friendship.
(d) A divorce.

5. "Pennsylvania Landscape", painted in 1942, was Wyeth's attempt to show ______________________.
(a) All of Pennsylvania in one picture.
(b) Bucolic country life.
(c) The ravages of winter.
(d) Boys at play.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Wyeth enjoy in "Toll Rope"?

2. What does "Spring Beauty" signify for Wyeth's work?

3. For how long had Wyeth been painting at the time this book was written?

4. How old was Anna Kuerner in the 1986 painting, "Cornflowers"?

5. Whose house was featured in "Brown Swiss" in 1957?

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