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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. According to the author, what theme is illustrated by the close-up landscapes of Chinese and Japanese art?
(a) The symbiotic relationship between Man and Nature.
(b) The idea that humans don't know as much as we think we do about Nature.
(c) The idea that divinity is manifest in everything.
(d) The idea that Nature is something to be respected, even feared.

2. According to the author in Appendix 6, what opens the doors of heaven, hell, and limbo for the living?
(a) "Massy keys of metals twain."
(b) Spiritual enlightenment.
(c) The presence or absence of certain chemicals in the blood.
(d) Death.

3. What is the last sentence in Appendix 8?
(a) "Beware the pendula."
(b) "If being a visionary makes me psychotic, then I gladly will be so."
(c) "The robots are nothing if not versatile."
(d) "I have nothing to fear but everything."

4. What does Carlyle call "an incredible tradition"?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Working for a living.
(d) Raising children.

5. What does the author call humans, at the end of Appendix 8?
(a) "Seductive demons."
(b) "Automata."
(c) "Clockwork dummies."
(d) "Machines built of flesh."

Short Answer Questions

1. What La Tour painting was acquired by the Louvre in 1934?

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

3. According to the author, there is very little of what in La Tour's paintings?

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

5. According to the author, where do the mentally-ill people discussed at the beginning of Appendix 6 spend their time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Carlyle feel about other people?

5. What does Gericault say about his own artwork, according to the quote in Appendix 7?

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

7. How does the author introduce Georges de La Tour in Appendix 4?

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

9. Of what was Carlyle constantly apprehensive or afraid?

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

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