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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In general, what does seeing do?
(a) Enables you to respond to the environment.
(b) Gives you the ability to avoid danger.
(c) Enables you to read.
(d) Gives you the ability to touch the environment.

2. Why can every viewer see a painting in a different way?
(a) All viewers have different eyesight abilities.
(b) Viewers have a variety of education levels in art history.
(c) Every viewer has a different color preference.
(d) Each viewer sees a painting based on their prior experiences and expectations.

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

4. How is Maddox Brown's painting different than the other images on pages 66 and 67?
(a) The painting includes mythical beings that are not present in the other images.
(b) The painting is entirely in black and white.
(c) The painting could be considered humorous in comparison to the other images.
(d) The painting depicts an unknown subject.

5. What metaphor do Berger et al. use to explain the single eye of perspective?
(a) A ceramic relic from ancient Greece.
(b) A cubist painting.
(c) A lighthouse beacon.
(d) A telescope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the theme of pages 42 and 43?

2. What makes the self-portraits on pages 80 and 81 interesting to the viewer?

3. What is different about an art collector compared to a collector of other objects?

4. Which statement best describes the Cubist style?

5. What is typically the focus in a work of art displaying a nude?

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