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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What diversifies the meaning of a painting?
(a) Its type of framing.
(b) Its title.
(c) The type of museum lighting.
(d) Its reproduction in many locations.

2. The author proposes that there is a gap between what two concepts?
(a) Words and sight.
(b) Words and poetry.
(c) Words and thought.
(d) Words and text.

3. What does Berger et al. claim that a woman's presence is to a man?
(a) A man thinks of a woman's presence as an awkward postition.
(b) A man thinks of a woman's presence only as a physical existence.
(c) A man thinks of a woman's presence as emotional radiance.
(d) A man thinks of a woman's presence only as it benefits himself.

4. What is unique about the Cubist images in Chapter 2 on pages 38 and 39?
(a) They consist of a variety of wild animals.
(b) The images include an enormous amount of detail.
(c) It seems that the figures in the images are male.
(d) It takes some imagination to see a nude female figure.

5. What is a contradiction to the assumption that early European oil painters portrayed a level of humanism in their work?
(a) Their use of non-human colors to paint their nudes.
(b) Their inability to use humanistic expression in landscapes.
(c) Their omission of male nudes in their paintings.
(d) Their expression of women as either objects or abstractions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most of the images on pages 40 and 41 are of what content?

2. How does a woman see herself, according to Berger et al.?

3. Which is a traditional object used in covering the figures in nude paintings?

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

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

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