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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are images a record of?
(a) The history of the subject.
(b) The object in present-day.
(c) The way a sight was once seen.
(d) The memories of the image-creator.

2. What is the title of all the paintings on pages 70 and 71?
(a) God Bless the Queen.
(b) Pan.
(c) Nude woman.
(d) Still life.

3. What do Berger et al. say about the portrayal of naked women in early European oil paintings?
(a) That they need to balance the number of male and female nudes in a painting.
(b) That paintings of nudes are shameful in any culture.
(c) That paintings of nudes should not be reproduced.
(d) That they should not turn a naked body into an object for display.

4. How can a work of art lose its mystification?
(a) By taking the work out of the context of the past.
(b) By making multiple uses of its reproductions.
(c) By creating too many written commentaries by critics.
(d) By changing the title for more modern viewers.

5. What is the subject of Rembrandt's first self-portrait?
(a) Himself and a black bird.
(b) Himself as a court jester.
(c) Himself and his faithful dog.
(d) Himself and his first wife, Saskia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is a woman composed of two parts of one female identity, according to Berger et al.?

2. From what ages does Rembrandt paint two self-portraits?

3. How do Berger et al. refer to a woman's dual role?

4. What does Kenneth Clark (not the authors) say about the concepts of naked and nude?

5. What words would best describe Chapter 2 as a whole?

(see the answer key)

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