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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which painting follows "Before Picking" in 1942?
(a) After Picking.
(b) Ripe Rewards.
(c) The Harvest.
(d) Autumnal Bliss.

2. Wyeth completed the "Lobster Traps" painting in what was called his _______________ period.
(a) Purple bruise.
(b) Temperamental.
(c) Blue sky.
(d) Yellow sol.

3. "Toll Rope" in 1951 shows the inside of a _______________.
(a) Museum.
(b) Bar.
(c) School room.
(d) Church.

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

5. Where did Wyeth find the items for "Before Picking"?
(a) His cornfield.
(b) His backyard.
(c) A commercial orchard.
(d) His father's orchard.

6. In many ways, Wyeth's paintings were like _________________.
(a) Dreams.
(b) Fables.
(c) Billboards.
(d) Stories.

7. 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) He is still trying to understand him as an artist.
(c) Longer than it took to know him as a person.
(d) He never did get to know him as an artist.

8. What did Wyeth think that the item in "Toll Rope" represented?
(a) Hope.
(b) Religious conviction.
(c) Redemption.
(d) New England as a whole.

9. Who did it seem Wyeth was painting for many times?
(a) His wife.
(b) His father.
(c) His son.
(d) Himself.

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

11. What did the author say about getting to know Andrew Wyeth?
(a) They got along famously from the start.
(b) He never actually met him in person.
(c) He never really got comfortable with him.
(d) It took him a long time to get to know him as a person.

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

13. The door in "Blue Door" in 1952 is at whose home?
(a) Wyeth's.
(b) Gabe McKinney's.
(c) Waino Mattson's.
(d) Christina Olson's.

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

15. "Before Picking" was a painting of ________________.
(a) Apples.
(b) Peaches.
(c) Raspberries.
(d) Corn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did NOT describe an Andrew Wyeth painting?

2. Which of the following is NOT included with the descriptions of the paintings in this book?

3. "Trodden Weed" in 1951 is a portrait of whose shoes?

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

5. Wyeth's reasons for starting a painting could be called _______________.

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