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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. What did Wyeth think about "Winter Corn" in 1948?
(a) It came to him in a dream.
(b) It was almost too depressing to complete.
(c) It was his son's suggestion.
(d) It was his best painting of corn.

2. When did Wyeth cultivate his independence?
(a) Not until his later life.
(b) About the age of 21.
(c) At an early age.
(d) In his mid-40s.

3. 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) Longer than it took to know him as a person.
(c) He loved his work from the moment he saw it.
(d) He never did get to know him as an artist.

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

5. The painting, "Lobster Traps" was completed when Wyeth was what age?
(a) 20.
(b) 56.
(c) 30.
(d) 45.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Christmas Morning" in 1944 was Wyeth's first painting that concerned ________________.

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

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

4. Who did Wyeth know who was buried in the cemetery where the grave digger was doing his work?

5. The door in "Blue Door" in 1952 is at whose home?

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