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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What image is the exception to the images featured on pages 36 and 37?
(a) The advertising slogans.
(b) The celebrity photos.
(c) The black and white photos.
(d) The storefront mannequins.

2. Which is a traditional object used in covering the figures in nude paintings?
(a) Fig leaves.
(b) Books or papers.
(c) Water.
(d) Mirrors.

3. According to the authors, what is a woman's internal presence comprised of?
(a) A perception of how she should act to be treated like she wants.
(b) A preception of what men like.
(c) An idea of what she looks like to a man.
(d) An illusion of what she should be.

4. Which of the following statements is true, according to Berger?
(a) Nude and naked should really be one word since they have the same meaning.
(b) Nudity is as shameful as nakedness.
(c) Nakedness is without disguise, but nudity is a form of dress.
(d) Nakedness should be acceptable to society.

5. Which of the following is an example of how creating a reproduction can change the meaning of a painting?
(a) The face of one figure in a group can be isolated in reproduction to become a portrait.
(b) A photographer takes a picture of Da Vinci's the "Virgin of the Rocks" in the National Gallery.
(c) A publisher of an art history book decides to reproduce images to accompany the text.
(d) An art student attempts to make a reproduction of Da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks".

6. What word best describes the overall affect of the combined images on pages 36 and 37?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Athletic.
(c) Love.
(d) Elegance.

7. Which item would NOT fit the theme on pages 40 and 41?
(a) A handbag or purse.
(b) Ladies stockings.
(c) An advertising slogan for juicy pineapple.
(d) A harp.

8. The author proposes that there is a gap between what two concepts?
(a) Words and poetry.
(b) Words and thought.
(c) Words and sight.
(d) Words and text.

9. 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 naked is any undressed object.
(c) That nude is a form of art and naked is simply being without clothes.
(d) That nude is a term used only for naked women.

10. How does a woman see herself, according to Berger et al.?
(a) She sees herself as a man illusion.
(b) She sees herself as a composite of image and emotion.
(c) She sees herself as a sight.
(d) She sees herself as a physical reflection in a mirror.

11. Which statement summarizes how images are subjective?
(a) A good artist can pass his way of seeing to the viewer,
(b) An artist represents his own way of seeing, and the viewer sees the art with another way of seeing.
(c) Paintings rarely have good titles to define their meaning.
(d) People usually see the same images.

12. Which unique content is present in Chapter 2, on pages 40 and 41?
(a) Formal portrait of George Washington.
(b) Advertisement for a body lotion.
(c) A horse jumping through a hoop of fire.
(d) The slogan "Frank Cooper puts everything he's got into making soup."

13. What words would best describe Chapter 2 as a whole?
(a) Politics, education, government.
(b) Art, culture, society.
(c) Women, nudes, consumerism.
(d) Men, money, power.

14. What does the word 'image' mean in this book?
(a) Any object that can be seen.
(b) Any reproduced art work.
(c) Any work of art.
(d) Reproduced sight.

15. According to the authors, what are women culturally and socially conditioned to do?
(a) Critize the condition of other women.
(b) Be politically educated.
(c) Project the wants of others.
(d) Be aware of their own image as others see it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Berger's conclusion about the image of a nude woman looking in a mirror?

2. How does the painter, Durer, create what he believes is the perfect nude?

3. What is prominent in Ruben's painting?

4. What do images of the past promote?

5. What is surprising to see mixed in with the images on pages 40 and 41?

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