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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to the authors, what is a woman's internal presence comprised of?
(a) An illusion of what she should be.
(b) A preception of what men like.
(c) A perception of how she should act to be treated like she wants.
(d) An idea of what she looks like to a man.

4. According to the authors, what are women culturally and socially conditioned to do?
(a) Critize the condition of other women.
(b) Be politically educated.
(c) Project the wants of others.
(d) Be aware of their own image as others see it.

5. Which painting is used an example of who benefits from a nude painting?
(a) Picasso's abstract female nudes.
(b) Rembrant's "Bathesheba."
(c) Gaugin's "Nevermore."
(d) Bronzino's painting of Cupid and Venus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor do Berger et al. use to explain the single eye of perspective?

2. What is prominent in Ruben's painting?

3. Why is it a significant accomplishment for an artist to paint children at play?

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

5. When do artists begin to use the concept of singular perspective?

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