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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What was the subject of the Delacroix painting the author mentions in Appendix 5?
(a) A small girl in a blue dress.
(b) A mountainous landscape.
(c) The corner of a room.
(d) A close-up of bark, leaves and flowers.

3. What La Tour painting was acquired by the Louvre in 1934?
(a) "The Creation of Man."
(b) "The Painters of Reality."
(c) "The Venus of Willendorf."
(d) "The Robust Workhorse."

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

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

6. 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 technically correct but had no soul.
(c) They were too bold and lacked finesse.
(d) They were harmonious compositions.

7. What was the subject of the poem the author quotes in Appendix 5?
(a) A pond surrounded by poplars in fall.
(b) A child on a road surrounded by corn fields.
(c) A bird flying out of a bush and settling in the poet's hand.
(d) A solitary oak tree on top of a hill.

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

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 is the first Gericault painting mentioned by the author in Appendix 7?
(a) "Horse Startled by Lightning."
(b) "Officier de Chasseurs."
(c) "Raft of the Medusa."
(d) "The Derby."

11. 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 Purgatory to Heaven.
(c) From Hades to Heaven.
(d) From Heaven to Hades.

12. What does the author say in response to Gericault's quote about his own paintings?
(a) More often, what the subject turned into was much less amiable than what Gericault claimed.
(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) Gericault is deluded into thinking that his art was transformative, when it really wasn't.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the biography about Carlyle?

2. What was the style of the new Art of Versailles, according to the author?

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

4. What does the author say at the end of Appendix 4 about the relationship between an artist's character and their work?

5. What did Carlyle feel the universe was doing to him?

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