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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what is the same between pages 40 to 41 and pages 42 to 43?
(a) All of the pages depict wealthy and powerful men.
(b) All of the pages are publicity for the female figure.
(c) All of the pages demonstrate the difference between men and women.
(d) All of the pages are a statement on the historical struggle of artists.

2. In general, what does seeing do?
(a) Gives you the ability to touch the environment.
(b) Enables you to respond to the environment.
(c) Gives you the ability to avoid danger.
(d) Enables you to read.

3. What is the theme of pages 42 and 43?
(a) A demonstration of corruption in a democratic society.
(b) A demonstration of the problems in modern art and culture.
(c) A demonstration of the right to free speech in the United States.
(d) A demonstration of objectifying women for publicity purposes.

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

5. What is Berger's conclusion about the image of a nude woman looking in a mirror?
(a) That the mirror neutralizes the guilt of both spectator and nude.
(b) That the mirror signifies the woman's vanity.
(c) That the mirror creates a split character in the nude woman.
(d) That the mirror shows a woman comparing herself to a younger woman.

6. In Chapter 2, what do facing pages 40 and 41 contain?
(a) Female nudes in oil paintings.
(b) Males viewing female nudes in oil paintings.
(c) Advertising slogans.
(d) Publicity images.

7. What are images a record of?
(a) The way a sight was once seen.
(b) The object in present-day.
(c) The history of the subject.
(d) The memories of the image-creator.

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

9. 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) An illusion of what she should be.
(c) An idea of what she looks like to a man.
(d) A preception of what men like.

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

11. Magritte's painting is an example of what type of artwork?
(a) Realism.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Impressionism.
(d) Expressionism.

12. Why can every viewer see a painting in a different way?
(a) All viewers have different eyesight abilities.
(b) Every viewer has a different color preference.
(c) Each viewer sees a painting based on their prior experiences and expectations.
(d) Viewers have a variety of education levels in art history.

13. 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.

14. Who is meant to benefit from the focus of a nude painting?
(a) The male figures in the image.
(b) The nude woman.
(c) The spectator.
(d) The painter.

15. Which of the following is a detail of Gauguin's painting "Nevermore"?
(a) The viewer can see many sides of the female figure.
(b) The female figure is facing her back to the viewer.
(c) The painting includes a crow sitting above the female nude.
(d) The painting includes a man at the woman's side.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author use "The Key of Dreams" as an example of?

2. What does the traditional depiction of Adam and Eve project as the perception of being naked?

3. Why does the author discuss the work of Frans Hals?

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

5. In Chapter 2, what are the authors trying to demonstrate with the images on pages 40 and 41?

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