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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why are religious beings often portrayed doing nothing?
(a) Because human beings are not predisposed to look for action in art.
(b) Because it is too difficult for most painters to make something beautiful and to also convey a message with it.
(c) Because it would be sacreligious to presume to know what divine beings do with their time.
(d) Because their role is not an active one.

3. What was the subject of most of Vuillard's paintings?
(a) Landscapes.
(b) Gardens.
(c) Models.
(d) Interiors.

4. What researcher performed experiments with touching parts of the brain with a fine electrode?
(a) Maradon.
(b) Penfield.
(c) Kreitz.
(d) Jaung.

5. What two techniques, according to the author, can produce effects similar to those of mescalin?
(a) Hypnosis and fasting.
(b) Fasting and sensory deprivation.
(c) Fasting and meditation.
(d) Meditation and sensory deprivation.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what did one subject see while under the effects of mescalin and the second technique described in Appendix 1?

2. What film does the author reference as an example of the distorted documentary?

3. What is the difference between the two techniques the author describes in Appendix 1?

4. According to the author, what is the most important effect of the first technique mentioned in Appendix 1?

5. How did "pyrotechny" begin in Europe, according to the author?

(see the answer key)

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