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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the candle light do for La Tour's paintings, according to the author?

2. What do schizophrenics share with other psychotics, according to the author?

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

4. According to the author in Appendix 6, what opens the doors of heaven, hell, and limbo for the living?

5. What does the author specifically state in Appendix 6 does NOT open the doors of heaven, hell, and limbo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What phrase does the author use to describe Gericault at the beginning of Appendix 7, and what does it mean?

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

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

7. Of what was Carlyle constantly apprehensive or afraid?

8. What does Halliday write about Carlyle's description of himself?

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

10. How does Carlyle feel about other people?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Huxley uses zoology as a metaphor for the unexplored regions of the human mind. What is a metaphor? What is Huxley trying to convey by using this metaphor? Is the metaphor effective and appropriate? If not, is there a more appropriate one which he could have used, and why would it have been better? Did this metaphor aid your understanding of Huxley's point?

Essay Topic 2

Huxley devotes one appendix to discussing the art of Georges de La Tour. How was Huxley affected by La Tour's art? What was unique about it? What does La Tour's art have to do with visionary experiences? Do you think other people who saw La Tour's art viewed it in the same way Huxley did?

Essay Topic 3

Huxley refers to the concept of "Ding an Sich," or "thing in itself," to express the concept of something which is simply "there." How does this concept relate to the work of various artists discussed by Huxley in the text? How does it relate to the visionary experiences Huxley has had?

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