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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author say La Tour paints, at the end of Appendix 4?
(a) God's immanence.
(b) Cautionary tales.
(c) Visionary experiences.
(d) Divine retribution.

3. According to the author, there is very little of what in La Tour's paintings?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Originality.
(c) Technicality.
(d) Religiosity.

4. What is revealed, to the author, by Gericault's "Horse Startled by Lightning"?
(a) The sometimes sinister "otherness" of ordinary things.
(b) The necessity of understanding the point of view from which ordinary things are seen.
(c) Gericault's lack of technical artistic skill.
(d) The importance of seeing things anew each moment.

5. According to the author, what is an example of Vuillard giving the viewer "the best of both worlds" in his paintings?
(a) A painting of a wall with a garden view through a window.
(b) A painting of an artist painting a landscape.
(c) A painting of a corner of a room with a painted landscape on the wall.
(d) A painting of a house atop a hill, in a vast landscape.

6. To what does Carlyle compare the heavens and earth?
(a) A suspended guillotine.
(b) A vise.
(c) The jaws of a monster.
(d) A trap waiting to spring.

7. What does the author specifically state in Appendix 6 does NOT open the doors of heaven, hell, and limbo?
(a) "Massy keys of metals twain."
(b) Spiritual enlightenment.
(c) The presence or absence of certain chemicals in the blood.
(d) Death.

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

9. The author compares Carlyle to what other artist?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Gericault.
(c) Da Vinci.
(d) Renee.

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

11. The first painter mentioned in Appendix IV was the appointed artist to the king of what nation?
(a) Spain.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Portugal.

12. What is striking about the painting of the butcher bird, to which the author refers at the end of Appendix 5?
(a) It has an almost human expression.
(b) It stands alone with nothing on any side of it.
(c) It is drawn in painstaking detail.
(d) It is looking directly at the viewer.

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

14. A mental state similar to that of schizophrenia can be induced by administering what drug?
(a) Derivatives of adrenalin.
(b) Mescalin.
(c) PCP.
(d) LSD.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carlyle call "an incredible tradition"?

2. Who is mentioned in Appendix 5 as the artist who painted "Dell in Helmingham Park"?

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

4. What is the author's complaint about the colors used in "Raft of the Medusa"?

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

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