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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Appendix 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What results were produced when a researcher prodded parts of the brain with a fine electrode?
(a) The subjects experienced a variety of emotions.
(b) The subjects were able to learn new languages and skills more efficiently.
(c) Various parts of the subjects' bodies twitched.
(d) The subjects recalled detailed and distant memories.

2. Which of these is NOT a vision which the author thinks might be produced by prodding the brain with an electrode?
(a) The author's friend's vision of a colorful Japanese landscape.
(b) Blake's visions of the Cherubim.
(c) Nostradamus's visions of the future.
(d) Weir Mitchell's visions of the Gothic tower.

3. What was a magic lantern show?
(a) A projection created with cut-glass and candlelight.
(b) An early fireworks display.
(c) The nineteenth-century equivalent of a movie.
(d) A laser light display.

4. What La Tour painting was acquired by the Louvre in 1934?
(a) "The Painters of Reality."
(b) "The Robust Workhorse."
(c) "The Creation of Man."
(d) "The Venus of Willendorf."

5. What is the drawback to the "visionary arts" mentioned in Appendix 3?
(a) They can only be experienced in large groups.
(b) They are ephemeral, and earlier masterpieces have been lost to us.
(c) They require a great deal of time, effort and expense to put on.
(d) They are experienced differently by each individual, so no one understands how another experiences them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What affects one's ability to have visionary experiences, according to the author, if one is using the first method mentioned in Appendix 1?

2. What is the subject of most of La Tour's paintings?

3. What is the political purpose of regalia and pageantry, according to the author?

4. What is self-flagellation?

5. What was the style of the new Art of Versailles, according to the author?

(see the answer key)

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