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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 visually similar about the paintings "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes" and " Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill"?
(a) They both portray elderly subjects.
(b) They both portray wealthy subjects.
(c) They both contain subjects that are moving.
(d) They are both black and white reproductions.

2. What is the visual irony between the images on pages 68 and 69, and the images on pages 70 and 71?
(a) The tragedy of love and death.
(b) The play between death and life sustaining sustenance.
(c) The connection between naked and nude.
(d) The similarity between the religious and the political.

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

4. When do artists begin to use the concept of singular perspective?
(a) In the early Renaissance.
(b) In the early Impressionist movement.
(c) In early Abstractionism.
(d) In the early Surrealist movement.

5. Who is meant to benefit from the focus of a nude painting?
(a) The spectator.
(b) The painter.
(c) The male figures in the image.
(d) The nude woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most of the images on pages 40 and 41 are of what content?

2. Which phrase is a good description of how Demoiselles is portrayed?

3. In Chapter 6, which painting best shows the humanity of its subject?

4. Who is meant to be the ideal viewer of pages 42 and 43?

5. What do paintings of children demonstrate about the patron who commissioned the work?

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