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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Carlyle writes that he sometimes forgets what about other people?
(a) That they are sometimes discomfited by his illness.
(b) That they are not all as sane as they appear.
(c) That they have their own lives and loved ones.
(d) That they are not just machines.

3. Which of these is NOT something with which schizophrenics have lost touch, according to the author?
(a) Matter.
(b) Language.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Fellow beings.

4. What phrase does the author use at the beginning of Appendix 7 to describe Gericault?
(a) "Negative visionary."
(b) "Transportative creator."
(c) "Monochromatic Van Gogh."
(d) "Technical artist."

5. What does Carlyle write of the men and women around him?
(a) They didn't want to talk to him.
(b) They seemed as if they were out to get him.
(c) Their interactions with him were superficial.
(d) They were merely figures.

6. Which of these is NOT an example given by the author of great nature art?
(a) Eighteen inches of a bamboo stem with its leaves.
(b) A mountain stream seen from the brush.
(c) A spray of blossoming plum.
(d) Finches in a bush.

7. What is the title of the biography written about Carlyle?
(a) "Carlyle: Man and Author."
(b) "A Study on Psychosis."
(c) "The Delusional Cartographer."
(d) "Mr Carlyle, my Patient."

8. 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 Nature is something to be respected, even feared.
(d) The idea that humans don't know as much as we think we do about Nature.

9. The "new Art of Versailles" was deliberately cultivated, according to the author, during the reign of which king?
(a) Louis XIV.
(b) Edward VI.
(c) Phillip II.
(d) Henry VIII.

10. How does the author describe La Tour as a person?
(a) Humble, wise, and meek.
(b) Generous and hard-working.
(c) Gruff but kind.
(d) Hard, avaricious, and proud.

11. What did Carlyle feel the universe was doing to him?
(a) Crushing him under its weight.
(b) Ripping his heart to shreds, then mending it again.
(c) Grinding him limb from limb.
(d) Tossing him around like a vessel on the waves.

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

13. According to the author, who might the old man be in the painting by La Tour referenced at the end of Appendix 4?
(a) St. Thomas.
(b) St. Joseph.
(c) St. Peter.
(d) St. Paul.

14. What does the author say at the end of Appendix 4 about the relationship between an artist's character and their work?
(a) Artists must suffer to produce great work.
(b) There is no correlation between the two.
(c) Only men of great character can create great works of art.
(d) You can judge a man's character by looking at his work.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gericault claimed that when he started to paint a woman, it turned into what?

2. Who is mentioned in Appendix 5 as the artist who painted "Thicket"?

3. Which is NOT a type of progress the author mentions at the end of Appendix 6?

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

5. Where was Gericault when he saw the horse that inspired him to paint "Officiers de Chasseurs"?

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