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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do images of the past promote?
(a) Reinterpretation.
(b) Authority.
(c) Technology.
(d) Illusion.

2. After reproductions are made, an original work of art is unique only in its what?
(a) Composition.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Rarity.
(d) Interpretation.

3. What number is posted symbolically on pages 36 and 37 of Chapter 2?
(a) Forty.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty-one.

4. What is the appearance of the figures in pages 72 to 73?
(a) Stern portraits.
(b) Idealistic nudes.
(c) Prominent figures dressed according to their time period.
(d) Ornamentally dressed females.

5. What do Berger et al. mean by the phrase "holy relic"?
(a) That a viewer may feel a sense of authenticity and beauty in the presence of an original.
(b) That a reproduced copy devalues the original art.
(c) That museums make money from making original artworks appear holy.
(d) That historical art works belong in churches or holy buildings,

Short Answer Questions

1. What are most traditional oil paintings commissioned to demonstrate to the viewer?

2. What is the purpose of the paired images on pages 126 and 127?

3. What is significant about the images presented on pages 120 and 121?

4. Which painting is used an example of who benefits from a nude painting?

5. Until approximately what date does the period of traditional oil painting run through?

(see the answer key)

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