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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. The author discusses the history of what type of ideas at the end of Appendix 6?
(a) Theological.
(b) Eschatological.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Physiological.

2. 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 is looking directly at the viewer.
(c) It stands alone with nothing on any side of it.
(d) It is drawn in painstaking detail.

3. What does the author say at the end of Appendix 4 about the relationship between an artist's character and their work?
(a) There is no correlation between the two.
(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) Artists must suffer to produce great work.

4. To what animal does Carlyle compare himself?
(a) A lion.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A bear.

5. What is the author's complaint about the colors used in "Raft of the Medusa"?
(a) The earthen tones don't adequately convey the frantic tone of the painting.
(b) The raft, the people on it, and even the sky are corpse-colored.
(c) The sepia tone makes everything look old-fashioned and weathered.
(d) The colors are not accurate and true-to-life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Carlyle writes that he sometimes forgets what about other people?

2. What phrase does the author use at the beginning of Appendix 7 to describe Gericault?

3. What group of mentally-ill people does the author write about in Appendix 6?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Carlyle feel about other people?

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

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

5. What is unique about La Tour's style of painting?

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

7. Which of Gericault's paintings are included by the author in a list of Gericault's "demonic pictures"?

8. According to the author in Appendix 6, how are the doors of Heaven and Hell opened for the living?

9. What does the author say in Appendix 5 about "Nature at the middle distance"?

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

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