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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is prominent in Ruben's painting?
(a) Men arguing.
(b) Wine and a party.
(c) Fruits and vegetables.
(d) Nude figures.

5. What do Berger et al. say about the portrayal of naked women in early European oil paintings?
(a) That paintings of nudes are shameful in any culture.
(b) That paintings of nudes should not be reproduced.
(c) That they should not turn a naked body into an object for display.
(d) That they need to balance the number of male and female nudes in a painting.

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) Publicity images.
(d) Advertising slogans.

7. According to the authors, how is the focus of a man's power different than a female's?
(a) It is always focused on appearances.
(b) It is always focused on money.
(c) It is always focused towards women.
(d) It is always focused externally.

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

9. What image is obviously coupled with Ruben's painting on pages 42 and 43?
(a) A photo shoot of a woman provocatively posed.
(b) A still life by Van Gogh.
(c) A publicity image of a famous movie star.
(d) A self-portrait by Rembrandt.

10. What do Berger et al. mean by the phrase "holy relic"?
(a) That historical art works belong in churches or holy buildings,
(b) That a reproduced copy devalues the original art.
(c) That museums make money from making original artworks appear holy.
(d) That a viewer may feel a sense of authenticity and beauty in the presence of an original.

11. What diversifies the meaning of a painting?
(a) The type of museum lighting.
(b) Its reproduction in many locations.
(c) Its title.
(d) Its type of framing.

12. Who is Frans Hals?
(a) A famous, modern, art historian.
(b) A young impressionist in 1890.
(c) An eighty-year-old destitute Dutch painter in 1664.
(d) An emerging artist in New York City in 1990.

13. To what area is the single eye of perspective unique?
(a) Middle East.
(b) Europe.
(c) Asia.
(d) South America.

14. What is similar about the images on pages 42 and 43?
(a) They are mostly publicity images aimed at a female viewer.
(b) They mostly involve still lifes, not human subjects.
(c) They are mostly paintings without titles.
(d) They are entirely black and white.

15. What painting by Ruben is included in pages 42 and 43?
(a) "Bathsheba at Her Bath."
(b) "Abstract female nude."
(c) "Judgement of Paris."
(d) "Birds flying from haystack."

Short Answer Questions

1. When do artists begin to use the concept of singular perspective?

2. What generalization could be made about the combination of images on pages 40 and 41?

3. According to the authors, what is a woman's internal presence comprised of?

4. What number is posted symbolically on pages 36 and 37 of Chapter 2?

5. What is typically the focus in a work of art displaying a nude?

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