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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is mentioned in Appendix 5 as the artist who painted "Dell in Helmingham Park"?
(a) Constable.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Millais.
(d) Monet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What was the subject of most of Vuillard's paintings?
(a) Models.
(b) Landscapes.
(c) Interiors.
(d) Gardens.

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

12. 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 corner of a room with a painted landscape on the wall.
(b) A painting of a wall with a garden view through a window.
(c) A painting of an artist painting a landscape.
(d) A painting of a house atop a hill, in a vast landscape.

13. Upon what evidence does the author base his estimation of the way in which Gericault saw the world?
(a) The uneasiness the author felt when looking at Gericault's work.
(b) Journals and letters written by Gericault himself.
(c) The desperate tenor of Gericault's paintings.
(d) The accounts of Gericault's friends.

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

15. To what does Carlyle compare the universe?
(a) A wild horse.
(b) A grinding wheel.
(c) A steam-engine.
(d) A computer.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author compares schizophrenics to which of Sheol's beings?

2. What does the world inhabited by schizophrenics and other psychotics resemble, according to the author?

3. Which of these is NOT an example given by the author of great nature art?

4. The author compares Carlyle to what other artist?

5. According to Carlyle, why didn't he suffer from any definite fear?

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