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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which statement summarizes how images are subjective?
(a) A good artist can pass his way of seeing to the viewer,
(b) Paintings rarely have good titles to define their meaning.
(c) People usually see the same images.
(d) An artist represents his own way of seeing, and the viewer sees the art with another way of seeing.

3. How can a work of art lose its mystification?
(a) By changing the title for more modern viewers.
(b) By creating too many written commentaries by critics.
(c) By taking the work out of the context of the past.
(d) By making multiple uses of its reproductions.

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

5. What metaphor do Berger et al. use to explain the single eye of perspective?
(a) A telescope.
(b) A cubist painting.
(c) A lighthouse beacon.
(d) A ceramic relic from ancient Greece.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what area is the single eye of perspective unique?

2. The author proposes that there is a gap between what two concepts?

3. What does the author assert about vision?

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

5. Which words best describe Chapter 1 as a whole?

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