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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 specifically state in Appendix 6 does NOT open the doors of heaven, hell, and limbo?
(a) The presence or absence of certain chemicals in the blood.
(b) Spiritual enlightenment.
(c) Death.
(d) "Massy keys of metals twain."

2. What does Carlyle write of the men and women around him?
(a) Their interactions with him were superficial.
(b) They were merely figures.
(c) They didn't want to talk to him.
(d) They seemed as if they were out to get him.

3. According to Carlyle's biographer, what was his predominant mental illness?
(a) Depression.
(b) Delusional psychosis.
(c) Generalized panic disorder.
(d) Post-traumatic stress disorder.

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

5. According to the author, where do the mentally-ill people discussed at the beginning of Appendix 6 spend their time?
(a) None of these places.
(b) On Earth.
(c) In Hell.
(d) In Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say La Tour paints, at the end of Appendix 4?

2. What is the subject of most of La Tour's paintings?

3. What did Gericault use as a model for the people in "Raft of the Medusa"?

4. What does the author note about the background of Gericault's "The Derby"?

5. Gericault's portrait of a young boy and study of a naked man are both displayed, according to the author, in what museum?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Of what was Carlyle constantly apprehensive or afraid?

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

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

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

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

8. What is the "negative significance" which, according to the author, Carlyle and others like him saw in the world?

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

10. What is the difference between Western and Eastern art, as stated in Appendix 5?

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