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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the spectator located when a work of art uses the single eye perspective?
(a) At an infitite number of times and locations.
(b) The spectator is never considered.
(c) At the center, in one place at one time.
(d) At the center, but could be at many places in a single time.

2. Which of the following is an example of how creating a reproduction can change the meaning of a painting?
(a) A publisher of an art history book decides to reproduce images to accompany the text.
(b) A photographer takes a picture of Da Vinci's the "Virgin of the Rocks" in the National Gallery.
(c) An art student attempts to make a reproduction of Da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks".
(d) The face of one figure in a group can be isolated in reproduction to become a portrait.

3. Who is meant to be the ideal viewer of pages 42 and 43?
(a) Art historians.
(b) Contemporary artists.
(c) Businessmen.
(d) Female consumers.

4. In Chapter 2, what do facing pages 40 and 41 contain?
(a) Males viewing female nudes in oil paintings.
(b) Female nudes in oil paintings.
(c) Publicity images.
(d) Advertising slogans.

5. What word would best describe the images on pages 40 and 41?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Formal.
(c) Provocative.
(d) Emotional.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Frans Hals?

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

3. Which of the following is a detail of Gauguin's painting "Nevermore"?

4. Which statement best describes the Cubist style?

5. What does the author assert about vision?

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