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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In general, what does seeing do?
(a) Enables you to respond to the environment.
(b) Gives you the ability to touch the environment.
(c) Gives you the ability to avoid danger.
(d) Enables you to read.

2. What word best describes the overall affect of the combined images on pages 36 and 37?
(a) Elegance.
(b) Athletic.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Love.

3. Which of the following is an example of how creating a reproduction can change the meaning of a painting?
(a) An art student attempts to make a reproduction of Da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks".
(b) A publisher of an art history book decides to reproduce images to accompany the text.
(c) A photographer takes a picture of Da Vinci's the "Virgin of the Rocks" in the National Gallery.
(d) The face of one figure in a group can be isolated in reproduction to become a portrait.

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

5. What does the author use "The Key of Dreams" as an example of?
(a) The use of poetry in image.
(b) The gap between words and image.
(c) The use of bad titles.
(d) The use of words with image.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is visual art originally made for?

2. What has happened to the meaning of the images on pages 40 and 41?

3. What is similar about all of the women in the images on pages 36 and 37?

4. Magritte's painting is an example of what type of artwork?

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

(see the answer key)

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