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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the paired images on pages 126 and 127?
(a) Each pair demonstrates a different period in art history.
(b) Each pair shows a different side of popular culture.
(c) Each pair plays off each other to enhance their subject matter and style.
(d) Each pair demonstrates ways to pose the human body as a subject.

2. When was oil painting first developed?
(a) Early twentieth century.
(b) Late eighteenth century.
(c) Fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
(d) During the Middle Ages.

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

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

5. What is similar about all of the women in the images on pages 36 and 37?
(a) They are all ignoring the camera and viewer.
(b) They are all cleaning.
(c) They are all the focus of men in the images.
(d) They are all celebrities.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Berger et al. describe publicity images?

2. What words would best describe Chapter 2 as a whole?

3. What do images of the past promote?

4. What is the metaphor that Berger et al. use to describe the European oil painting tradition?

5. Which word best describes the images on pages 72 and 73?

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