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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Appendix 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the author feel that La Tour's art is religious?
(a) The subjects of his paintings are often religious figures.
(b) People often have visionary experiences looking at La Tour's work.
(c) It emphasizes a divine omnipresence.
(d) La Tour was a very religious man.

3. Who is mentioned in Appendix 5 as the artist who painted "Thicket"?
(a) Da Vinci.
(b) Monet.
(c) Manet.
(d) Van Gogh.

4. What, according to the author, breaks the silence in which schizophrenics exist?
(a) Divine intervention.
(b) The gibbering of ghosts.
(c) Their own screams.
(d) The occasional heartfelt words of a loved one.

5. What affects one's ability to have visionary experiences, according to the author, if one is using the first method mentioned in Appendix 1?
(a) The duration of use.
(b) The amount of substance that is allowed to reach the brain.
(c) The person's disposition before use.
(d) The number of times a person has used.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the difference, according to the author, between the Japanese butcher bird painting and Hardy's thrush?

2. What does the author say at the end of Appendix 4 about the relationship between an artist's character and their work?

3. Why are religious beings often portrayed doing nothing?

4. How do utilitarians feel about art?

5. The author states in Appendix 3 that the cinematographic art of the distorted documentary seems to presage the end of what?

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