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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paintings 21-70.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were the milk cans in "Milk Cans" located?
(a) A farm auction.
(b) Adam's farm.
(c) Wyeth's barn.
(d) Bruener's Dairy.

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

3. "Trodden Weed" in 1951 is a portrait of whose shoes?
(a) Wade's.
(b) Betsy's.
(c) Wyeth's.
(d) Abe's.

4. In "Wood Stove" painted in 1962, Wyeth depicted a house fragile on the outside but _______________________.
(a) Filled with spirituality inside.
(b) As strong as a rock inside.
(c) Held up with love from the inside.
(d) Full of secrets on the inside.

5. What did Wyeth note about the painting, "Milk Cans"?
(a) You shouldn't cry over spilled milk.
(b) Sometimes pictures just happen.
(c) He put a design on the cans that wasn't really there.
(d) You couldn't tell is the cans were empty or full.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of dog was Nellie in "Groundhog Day" painted in 1958?

2. "The Finn" from 1969 was a portrait of George Erikson whose daughter, ______________, Wyeth wanted to paint nude.

3. In 1933, Wyeth painted "Spring Landscape at _________________".

4. Wyeth considered which painting to be one of the best watercolors he ever did?

5. In what state was the scene in "Marsh Hawk" located?

(see the answer key)

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