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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say in Appendix 5 about Nature "at the middle distance"?
(a) It is the best way to see natural creatures in their habitat.
(b) It is not the best distance from which to view Nature's details.
(c) It is the only way humans are conditioned to view Nature.
(d) We are so familiar with it that we think we know everything about it.

2. How did Carlyle feel when he walked down a crowded street?
(a) Afraid.
(b) Isolated.
(c) Confused.
(d) Exultant.

3. What chemical change does the author mention at the end of Appendix 6?
(a) Replacing lysergic acid with adrenolutin and mescalin.
(b) Replacing mescalin and lysergic acid with adrenolutin.
(c) Replacing adrenolutin with mescalin and lysergic acid.
(d) Replacing mescalin with adrenolutin and lysergic acid.

4. What does the candle light do for La Tour's paintings, according to the author?
(a) Creates a unique way to light and shade the subjects.
(b) Allows La Tour to make the background of his paintings dark, and therefore less detailed.
(c) Stresses the importance and divinity of something simply existing.
(d) Makes them different from other painter's works, even when the subjects are similar.

5. How is the subject of a great work of nature art portrayed, according to the author?
(a) As an aspect of a greater whole.
(b) As the center of its own little universe.
(c) As a representation of an ideal form.
(d) As the bearer of some secret message.

6. According to Carlyle's biographer, what was his predominant mental illness?
(a) Depression.
(b) Post-traumatic stress disorder.
(c) Generalized panic disorder.
(d) Delusional psychosis.

7. In theological terms, the progress the author mentions at the end of Appendix 6 is a transition from what to what?
(a) From Hades to Purgatory.
(b) From Hades to Heaven.
(c) From Heaven to Hades.
(d) From Purgatory to Heaven.

8. To whom does the author attribute the concept of Hades, mentioned in Appendix 6?
(a) Homer.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Antigone.

9. What poet does the author quote in Appendix 5?
(a) Frost.
(b) Longfellow.
(c) Blake.
(d) Wordsworth.

10. According to the author, what theme is illustrated by the close-up landscapes of Chinese and Japanese art?
(a) The symbiotic relationship between Man and Nature.
(b) The idea that divinity is manifest in everything.
(c) The idea that humans don't know as much as we think we do about Nature.
(d) The idea that Nature is something to be respected, even feared.

11. Upon what evidence does the author base his comparison of a schizophrenic's experiences?
(a) Journal entries he wrote during his own psychotic break.
(b) Descriptions given by ancient religions.
(c) His own experience with drugs.
(d) The stories told to him by a psychotic friend.

12. Gericault claimed that when he started to paint a woman, it turned into what?
(a) A demon.
(b) A lion.
(c) A tree.
(d) A succubus.

13. What "divine tautology" is expressed by the subjects of great nature art, according to the author?
(a) "I am whatever you think I am."
(b) "I am that I am."
(c) "I think, therefore I am."
(d) "To be or not to be."

14. What does the world inhabited by schizophrenics and other psychotics resemble, according to the author?
(a) The spirits seen by a psychic.
(b) The world of the dead.
(c) A sane person's nervous breakdown.
(d) A psychedelic fugue.

15. What is the last sentence in Appendix 8?
(a) "I have nothing to fear but everything."
(b) "The robots are nothing if not versatile."
(c) "If being a visionary makes me psychotic, then I gladly will be so."
(d) "Beware the pendula."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say about Millais' "Ophelia" in Appendix 5?

2. According to the author, in what year did the rediscovery of La Tour begin?

3. According to the author, there is very little of what in La Tour's paintings?

4. What La Tour painting was acquired by the Louvre in 1934?

5. What does the author say in response to Gericault's quote about his own paintings?

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