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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Berger et al., what does traditional oil painting effectively do?
(a) Promotes the lower classes of society.
(b) Allows for the reformation of the church.
(c) Permits artists to express portraits in a humanistic style.
(d) Reduces all things to a tradable material or measurable commodity.

2. What words would best describe Chapter 2 as a whole?
(a) Women, nudes, consumerism.
(b) Men, money, power.
(c) Art, culture, society.
(d) Politics, education, government.

3. Which words best describe Chapter 1 as a whole?
(a) Windows, words, sight.
(b) Sight, words, perspective.
(c) Camera, sight, words.
(d) Sight, history, misinterpretation.

4. What is genre as a subject?
(a) New world subjects.
(b) Exotic botanicals.
(c) Exotic animals.
(d) Common life subjects.

5. What conventions influence traditional European oil painting as it develops?
(a) The intolerance of nude figures.
(b) The push for experimental theater and arts in general.
(c) The strive to create more social good.
(d) The obsession with property and power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the metaphor that Berger et al. use to describe the European oil painting tradition?

2. What tends to be the central figure(s) in the images presented in Chapter 4 on pages 66 and 67?

3. What word best describes the overall affect of the combined images on pages 36 and 37?

4. Which words best describe the mood of the paintings on pages 66 and 67?

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

(see the answer key)

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