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

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

3. Which of the following is a detail of Gauguin's painting "Nevermore"?
(a) The painting includes a man at the woman's side.
(b) The female figure is facing her back to the viewer.
(c) The viewer can see many sides of the female figure.
(d) The painting includes a crow sitting above the female nude.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement best describes the Cubist style?

2. In pages 36 and 37, how is the female figure presented?

3. In Chapter 2, what are the authors trying to demonstrate with the images on pages 40 and 41?

4. In Chapter 2, what do facing pages 40 and 41 contain?

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

(see the answer key)

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