View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is prominent in Ruben's painting?
(a) Men arguing.
(b) Nude figures.
(c) Fruits and vegetables.
(d) Wine and a party.

3. What could be stated as the theme of pages 40 and 41?
(a) The enhanced wealth and power of political figures.
(b) The heightened sensual and provocative essence of a woman.
(c) The warmth and comfort associated with everyday events and occurrences.
(d) The loss of meaning in a world of black and white photography.

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

5. What are most traditional oil paintings commissioned to demonstrate to the viewer?
(a) The social conditions of the time period.
(b) The style of monarchy and church rule of the time period.
(c) The power and wealth of the patron.
(d) The political turmoil that the patron has survived.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main difference in the effect on the viewer between the two Rembrandt self-portraits?

2. Which word best describes what Berger et al. believe that publicity images create in consumers?

3. What painting by Ruben is included in pages 42 and 43?

4. How is Maddox Brown's painting different than the other images on pages 66 and 67?

5. Which word best describes the position of artists as traditional oil painting develops?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 382 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample