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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which words best describe Chapter 1 as a whole?
(a) Windows, words, sight.
(b) Sight, history, misinterpretation.
(c) Camera, sight, words.
(d) Sight, words, perspective.

2. Which statement is NOT true about viewing an image made in the past?
(a) Images from the past are made clear with a modern understaning of events.
(b) A viewer "sees" himself in the landscape he looks at.
(c) Images show a sight that is not presently available.
(d) A work of art mystifies one about the past.

3. What does the author assert about vision?
(a) Vision is a mechanical function.
(b) Vision is common to all living things.
(c) Vision is a chemical reaction.
(d) Vision is a reciprocal function.

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

5. What invention eventually disproves the idea of center, and single eye?
(a) The microscope.
(b) The computer.
(c) The clock.
(d) The camera.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In general, what are words used to do?

4. What do images of the past promote?

5. What does the word 'image' mean in this book?

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