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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Most of the images on pages 40 and 41 are of what content?
(a) Political figures.
(b) Females in various stages of undress.
(c) Genre paintings.
(d) Still lifes.

3. What is surprising to see mixed in with the images on pages 40 and 41?
(a) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
(b) A bottle of wine.
(c) Slices of ham.
(d) Elephants in a circus.

4. What would be a surprising image to display on pages 42 and 43?
(a) A traditional European oil painting,
(b) An abstract nude.
(c) A formal portrait.
(d) An advertisement for cosmetics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, pages 36 and 37, how are the women in the images viewed by men in the same images?

2. When do artists begin to use the concept of singular perspective?

3. What could be stated as the theme of pages 40 and 41?

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

5. What is the theme of pages 42 and 43?

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