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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the painter, Durer, create what he believes is the perfect nude?
(a) By sketching a beautiful nude from his imagination.
(b) By holding competitions for the most beautiful naked woman and using the winner as a nude.
(c) By combining various parts from different female bodies to create a full nude.
(d) By selecting the most male-like female figures and using them as nudes.

2. What does Kenneth Clark (not the authors) say about the concepts of naked and nude?
(a) That both naked and nude can be forms or art.
(b) That nude is a term used only for naked women.
(c) That nude is a form of art and naked is simply being without clothes.
(d) That naked is any undressed object.

3. What would be a surprising image to display on pages 42 and 43?
(a) An advertisement for cosmetics.
(b) A formal portrait.
(c) An abstract nude.
(d) A traditional European oil painting,

4. What covers the Knoll Ball Room?
(a) Oil paintings.
(b) Busts of prominent persons.
(c) Nude photos.
(d) Heavy tapestries.

5. In Chapter 4, what are the images depictions of on pages 66 and 67?
(a) Former Presidents.
(b) Celebrity photos.
(c) Religious icons.
(d) Botanical prints.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Manet's pastoral picnic setting reproduced with to make it a publicity image?

3. The author proposes that there is a gap between what two concepts?

4. What makes the self-portraits on pages 80 and 81 interesting to the viewer?

5. In Chapter 2, pages 36 and 37, how are the women in the images viewed by men in the same images?

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