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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do images of the past promote?
(a) Reinterpretation.
(b) Illusion.
(c) Technology.
(d) Authority.

2. Where is the figure in "Bathsheba" sitting?
(a) She is sitting to write a letter.
(b) The woman is sitting to have her feet washed.
(c) She is sitting at her bedside.
(d) She is sitting at the dinner table.

3. What is similar about all of the women in the images on pages 36 and 37?
(a) They are all cleaning.
(b) They are all the focus of men in the images.
(c) They are all celebrities.
(d) They are all ignoring the camera and viewer.

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

5. What number is posted symbolically on pages 36 and 37 of Chapter 2?
(a) Forty.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty-one.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word would best describe the images on pages 40 and 41?

3. What invention eventually disproves the idea of center, and single eye?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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