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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what is the setting of Gericault's painting "The Derby"?
(a) A small Spanish town.
(b) The Midwest.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Hell.

2. What was the style of the new Art of Versailles, according to the author?
(a) Cubist.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Impressionist.
(d) Classical.

3. What does the author say in response to Gericault's quote about his own paintings?
(a) Gericault is deluded into thinking that his art was transformative, when it really wasn't.
(b) That Gericault's style was not as original as Gericault seemed to think.
(c) That there were other painters who did what Gericault did, and did it better.
(d) More often, what the subject turned into was much less amiable than what Gericault claimed.

4. Which is NOT an object or work of art that the author references in comparison to the subjects of La Tour's paintings?
(a) Pharaoh.
(b) A Bodhisattva from Khmer.
(c) Da Vinci's apostles.
(d) Piero's angels.

5. 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) Finches in a bush.
(c) A spray of blossoming plum.
(d) A mountain stream seen from the brush.

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

7. According to the author, what would Baudelaire have called the young boy in Gericault's portrait?
(a) "An absurd halfling."
(b) "An apathetic cherub."
(c) "A budding Satan."
(d) "A mockery of youth."

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

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

10. Which is NOT a type of progress the author mentions at the end of Appendix 6?
(a) Chemical.
(b) Psychological.
(c) Zoological.
(d) Theological.

11. According to Carlyle, why didn't he suffer from any definite fear?
(a) Nothing could be worse than his present condition.
(b) He knew God would protect him.
(c) He had no hope.
(d) He felt that death was merely another stage of existence.

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

13. What is unique about La Tour's paintings, according to the author?
(a) He didn't use the proper colors for things.
(b) All of his paintings are monochromatic.
(c) He did most of them at a very young age.
(d) The subjects don't do anything. They are simply there.

14. What does the author say at the end of Appendix 7 about how Gericault's paintings looked in the artist's mind?
(a) They were ghastly monstrosities.
(b) They were too bold and lacked finesse.
(c) They were harmonious compositions.
(d) They were technically correct but had no soul.

15. Gericault's portrait of a young boy and study of a naked man are both displayed, according to the author, in what museum?
(a) The National Gallery.
(b) The Metropolitan Museum.
(c) The Museum of Fine Arts.
(d) The Louvre.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author, which cultures have the best art depicting nature scenes up close?

3. What happened to La Tour's reputation as a result of the rise of the new Art of Versailles?

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

5. To what sort of life are schizophrenics condemned, according to the author?

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