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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What primarily constitutes a landscape painting as traditional oil techniques are developed?
(a) Romantic man versus nature scenes.
(b) Solid tangible space.
(c) Intangible sky and distance.
(d) Abstract natural figures.

3. What is unique about the Cubist images in Chapter 2 on pages 38 and 39?
(a) The images include an enormous amount of detail.
(b) It seems that the figures in the images are male.
(c) It takes some imagination to see a nude female figure.
(d) They consist of a variety of wild animals.

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

5. From what time period are the images on pages 120 and 121?
(a) The nineteenth century.
(b) The sixteenth century.
(c) Late twentieth century.
(d) Early twenty-first century.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which words best describe the mood of the paintings on pages 66 and 67?

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

3. What could be the theme for all of the images included on pages 68 to 71?

4. What do Berger et al. mean by the phrase "holy relic"?

5. In what way does the ruling class of a period support or promote their own way of seeing?

(see the answer key)

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