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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. Which of these is NOT an example given by the author of great nature art?
(a) Eighteen inches of a bamboo stem with its leaves.
(b) Finches in a bush.
(c) A mountain stream seen from the brush.
(d) A spray of blossoming plum.

2. Gericault claimed that when he started to paint a woman, it turned into what?
(a) A lion.
(b) A demon.
(c) A succubus.
(d) A tree.

3. What phrase does the author use at the beginning of Appendix 7 to describe Gericault?
(a) "Negative visionary."
(b) "Technical artist."
(c) "Transportative creator."
(d) "Monochromatic Van Gogh."

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

5. How did Carlyle feel when he walked down a crowded street?
(a) Isolated.
(b) Confused.
(c) Afraid.
(d) Exultant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote the biography about Carlyle?

3. What was the subject of the Delacroix painting the author mentions in Appendix 5?

4. The "new Art of Versailles" was deliberately cultivated, according to the author, during the reign of which king?

5. According to Carlyle's biographer, what was his predominant mental illness?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the significance of the Wordsworth quote in Appendix 5?

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

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

6. How does Carlyle feel about other people?

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

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

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

10. Who is James Halliday?

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