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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is typically the focus in a work of art displaying a nude?
(a) A dressed male figure viewing the figure of a naked woman.
(b) A male figure and female figure without clothing.
(c) A naked female ignoring the unknown viewer.
(d) A female figure undressing for the male viewer.

2. Which of the following is the title of a painting on pages 72 and 73?
(a) "President Washington Age 40."
(b) "The Princess of Russia."
(c) "Venus and Mars."
(d) "Unearthly."

3. What is the visual irony between the images on pages 68 and 69, and the images on pages 70 and 71?
(a) The similarity between the religious and the political.
(b) The play between death and life sustaining sustenance.
(c) The connection between naked and nude.
(d) The tragedy of love and death.

4. Who is one of the first artists to break the tradition of objectifying women nudes?
(a) Manet.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Da Vinci.
(d) Rembrant.

5. After reproductions are made, an original work of art is unique only in its what?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Interpretation.
(c) Composition.
(d) Rarity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is similar about the images on pages 42 and 43?

2. What character often appears in the images on pages 72 and 73?

3. Why is a woman composed of two parts of one female identity, according to Berger et al.?

4. What does the author use "The Key of Dreams" as an example of?

5. How does the painter, Durer, create what he believes is the perfect nude?

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