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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. Who did Wyeth know who was buried in the cemetery where the grave digger was doing his work?
(a) His father.
(b) His wife.
(c) His son.
(d) His mother-in-law.

2. Which of the following did NOT describe an Andrew Wyeth painting?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Impressionistic.
(c) Free.
(d) Dreamlike.

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

4. What did Wyeth think that light in a painting could do?
(a) Change the face of a portrait.
(b) Make a picture more saleable.
(c) Shape the meaning of a picture.
(d) Ruin it.

5. In 1951 Wyeth had an eight-hour operation on his _______________.
(a) Lung.
(b) Heart.
(c) Leg.
(d) Brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author say about how Wyeth felt about his art?

2. How old was Wyeth when he completed the painting in 1933?

3. In the painting, "James Loper," Loper holds a horse harness belt and a _______________.

4. What did the author say about getting to know Andrew Wyeth?

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

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