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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are images a record of?
(a) The object in present-day.
(b) The history of the subject.
(c) The way a sight was once seen.
(d) The memories of the image-creator.

2. What does the word 'image' mean in this book?
(a) Any object that can be seen.
(b) Reproduced sight.
(c) Any reproduced art work.
(d) Any work of art.

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

4. What do Berger et al. mean by the phrase "holy relic"?
(a) That a viewer may feel a sense of authenticity and beauty in the presence of an original.
(b) That museums make money from making original artworks appear holy.
(c) That historical art works belong in churches or holy buildings,
(d) That a reproduced copy devalues the original art.

5. When do artists begin to use the concept of singular perspective?
(a) In the early Renaissance.
(b) In the early Impressionist movement.
(c) In early Abstractionism.
(d) In the early Surrealist movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author assert about vision?

2. What metaphor do Berger et al. use to explain the single eye of perspective?

3. Which of the following is an example of how creating a reproduction can change the meaning of a painting?

4. Which statement summarizes how images are subjective?

5. After reproductions are made, an original work of art is unique only in its what?

(see the answer key)

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