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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What painting by Ruben is included in pages 42 and 43?
(a) "Bathsheba at Her Bath."
(b) "Judgement of Paris."
(c) "Birds flying from haystack."
(d) "Abstract female nude."

2. What is the theme of pages 42 and 43?
(a) A demonstration of corruption in a democratic society.
(b) A demonstration of objectifying women for publicity purposes.
(c) A demonstration of the problems in modern art and culture.
(d) A demonstration of the right to free speech in the United States.

3. Who is Frans Hals?
(a) An emerging artist in New York City in 1990.
(b) An eighty-year-old destitute Dutch painter in 1664.
(c) A young impressionist in 1890.
(d) A famous, modern, art historian.

4. What has happened to the meaning of the images on pages 40 and 41?
(a) The meaning of the original image is lost when combined intentionally with text and other contrasting images.
(b) The meaning of each image is enhanced from being surrounded by photographs of similar images.
(c) The meaning of the original image is combined with a pair of two other images.
(d) The meaning of the original image is lost as well as the meaning of the images as a whole.

5. In pages 36 and 37, how is the female figure presented?
(a) Nude.
(b) Fully clothed.
(c) All in designer clothing.
(d) In make-up advertisements.

Short Answer Questions

1. What diversifies the meaning of a painting?

2. What do Berger et al. mean by the phrase "holy relic"?

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

4. What image is obviously coupled with Ruben's painting on pages 42 and 43?

5. In Chapter 2, what is the most stark contrast between the images on the first set of facing pages (36 and 37) and the images on the second set of facing pages (38 and 39)?

(see the answer key)

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