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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) You can judge a man's character by looking at his work.
(c) Only men of great character can create great works of art.
(d) There is no correlation between the two.

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

3. 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 Museum of Fine Arts.
(c) The Louvre.
(d) The Metropolitan Museum.

4. 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.

5. What does the author note about the background of Gericault's "The Derby"?
(a) It is very dark.
(b) It is too light.
(c) It doesn't match the tone of the painting and its subjects.
(d) It is unnaturally colored.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what evidence does the author base his comparison of a schizophrenic's experiences?

2. According to the author, who might the old man be in the painting by La Tour referenced at the end of Appendix 4?

3. Which of Van Gogh's paintings does the author use as an example of Western landscape art?

4. According to the author, how did Gericault see the world?

5. According to the author, in what year did the rediscovery of La Tour begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author say about Vuillard at the beginning of Appendix 5?

2. What is unique and praiseworthy about Japanese and Chinese art, according to the author?

3. What comment does the author make at the end of Appendix 4 regarding La Tour's personal character?

4. According to the author, how did La Tour feel about "theatrical effects" in his paintings?

5. To what does the author compare the world inhabited by schizophrenics in Appendix 6?

6. According to the author, in what state do schizophrenics spend most of their time?

7. What does the author mean when he calls La Tour an "extroverted visionary"?

8. What are the types of passage that the author mentions at the end of Appendix 6?

9. What is the difference, according to the author, between the two paintings he compares at the end of Appendix 5?

10. What did Gericault use as models for his work, "Raft of the Medusa"?

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