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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) Authority.
(b) Illusion.
(c) Reinterpretation.
(d) Technology.

2. From what ages does Rembrandt paint two self-portraits?
(a) Ages eighty to eighty-five.
(b) Ages eighteen to twenty-five.
(c) Ages twenty-eight to fifty-eight.
(d) Ages forty to fifty.

3. 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 could be considered humorous in comparison to the other images.
(c) The painting depicts an unknown subject.
(d) The painting is entirely in black and white.

4. What diversifies the meaning of a painting?
(a) The type of museum lighting.
(b) Its type of framing.
(c) Its title.
(d) Its reproduction in many locations.

5. What is the purpose of the paired images on pages 126 and 127?
(a) Each pair demonstrates a different period in art history.
(b) Each pair demonstrates ways to pose the human body as a subject.
(c) Each pair plays off each other to enhance their subject matter and style.
(d) Each pair shows a different side of popular culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. In general, what does seeing do?

2. Where is the spectator located when a work of art uses the single eye perspective?

3. What is a contradiction to the assumption that early European oil painters portrayed a level of humanism in their work?

4. Which subject is accorded with the highest prestige?

5. Which of the following would be a good symbol for the collection of images on pages 68 to 71?

(see the answer key)

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