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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word best describes the series of portraits displayed in the Knoll Ball Room?
(a) Sensual.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Formal.
(d) Weary.

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

3. What fills the gap between what an individual is and would like to be?
(a) Images that contain well-shaped nudes.
(b) Publicity images that feed daydreaming.
(c) Black and white photos of classic film stars.
(d) Oil paintings that show roots in history.

4. What is a modern-day substitute for the qualities present in the traditional oil painting?
(a) Celebrity.
(b) Fashion.
(c) Glamour.
(d) Intellect.

5. What is another name for publicity images proposed by Berger et al.?
(a) Promotional images.
(b) Visual messages.
(c) Road maps to society.
(d) Media photos.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which statement could easily be an interpretation of Van Gogh's "a cornfield with birds flying out of it"?

3. What is unique about the Cubist images in Chapter 2 on pages 38 and 39?

4. What has happened to the meaning of the images on pages 40 and 41?

5. What does the author assert about vision?

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