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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Artists with great self discipline often can not handle the ______________ others might place on them.
(a) Titles.
(b) Power.
(c) Guidelines.
(d) Restrictions.

2. Art comes from one's _____________ in one's own life, according to the authors, not from simply viewing art.
(a) Schooling.
(b) Community.
(c) Talent.
(d) Experience.

3. A crucial problem for many artists is whether to use _____________ tools or to use new ones in art making.
(a) Old.
(b) Innovative.
(c) Modern.
(d) Familiar.

4. The best art will seek to ____________ both the viewer and the creator, according to the authors.
(a) Challenge.
(b) Hurt.
(c) Move.
(d) Inspire.

5. Sometimes, this __________ work of being an artist can get in the way, according to the authors.
(a) Boring.
(b) Money.
(c) Outside.
(d) Necessary.

6. Many artists are rated based on the grants they might receive from the National ___________ for the Arts.
(a) Endowment.
(b) Institute.
(c) Organization.
(d) Company.

7. Artists will continually use ____________ for their own purposes, with competition being one of these energies.
(a) Hyper energy.
(b) Manic energy.
(c) Truth energy.
(d) Raw energy.

8. The artist must begin to consider what they value in their art and then ___________ the artwork accordingly.
(a) Create.
(b) Make.
(c) Fashion.
(d) Structure.

9. It is hard to produce the same sort of art from another's ______________, according to the authors, is impossible.
(a) Perspective.
(b) Toolbox.
(c) Brush.
(d) Chair.

10. The issues which occur after a piece of art has been completed require that the artist _________ with the rest of the world.
(a) Change.
(b) Reshape.
(c) Interact.
(d) Review.

11. The artist should use _______________ to illustrate ideas and not to wow the art community.
(a) Words.
(b) Multiple media techniques.
(c) Art techniques.
(d) Paper backing.

12. Many art makers will want to __________ their activities as an artist since others have done so and have derived pleasure from these pieces.
(a) Avoid.
(b) Ignore.
(c) Imitate.
(d) Stop.

13. The artist should seek the challenge not only to reassure themselves, but also to achieve a measure of _____________ on the quality of the work.
(a) Movement.
(b) Energy.
(c) Feedback.
(d) Praise.

14. Whatever an artist puts into a piece of art is what they will _____________ the piece of work, according to the authors.
(a) Make money from regarding.
(b) See in.
(c) Get out of.
(d) Understand from.

15. Art existed long before ____________, according to the authors, but some artists feel that they need these anyways.
(a) Stars in the sky.
(b) Degrees.
(c) Clay.
(d) Critics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The authors describe ___________ as the peripheral vision of the find and something that is crucial to being an artist.

2. Feedback which is received from a piece of art should be something which will __________ an artist, according to the authors.

3. The tragedy of lost graduate students is widespread, but many __________ ignore it, according to the authors.

4. ___________ includes the techniques involved in producing the art, whereas art is something different, according to the authors.

5. Art is always bound up in what the _____________ desires, according to the authors.

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