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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. "Hoffman's Slough" in 1947 rose from an idea after seeing _________________ in Maine.
(a) Lobsters.
(b) A lighthouse.
(c) A fishing boat.
(d) A swamp.

2. What did Wyeth think was not necessary to add to a scene?
(a) Personality.
(b) Strength.
(c) Life.
(d) Realism.

3. Who was James Loper in the painting, "James Loper", in 1952?
(a) Wyeth's stepson.
(b) Wyeth's boyhood friend.
(c) Wyeth's barber.
(d) Wyeth's protege.

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

5. How long did it take the author to get to know Andrew Wyeth as an artist?
(a) He is still trying to understand him as an artist.
(b) He loved his work from the moment he saw it.
(c) Longer than it took to know him as a person.
(d) He never did get to know him as an artist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of ANDREW WYETH: AUTOBIOGRAPHY?

2. "Pennsylvania Landscape", painted in 1942, was Wyeth's attempt to show ______________________.

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

4. What united both Wyeth the man and Wyeth the artist?

5. The danger in Wyeth's style of painting was that _____________________.

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