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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, what is the most stark contrast between the images on the first set of facing pages (36 and 37) and the images on the second set of facing pages (38 and 39)?
(a) Pages 36 and 37 are in black and white, and pages 38 and 39 are in color.
(b) The women on pages 36 and 37 are from historical works and the images on pages 38 and 39 are from modern works.
(c) The women on pages 36 and 37 are clothed and the women on pages 38 and 39 are not.
(d) The women on pages 36 and 37 are all wearing make-up and on pages 38 and 39 they are not.

3. What does the author assert about vision?
(a) Vision is a reciprocal function.
(b) Vision is common to all living things.
(c) Vision is a mechanical function.
(d) Vision is a chemical reaction.

4. Who is meant to be the ideal viewer of pages 42 and 43?
(a) Contemporary artists.
(b) Art historians.
(c) Female consumers.
(d) Businessmen.

5. In Chapter 2, what image is prominent on the first set of facing pages 36 and 37?
(a) The number five.
(b) A female artist holding a paintbrush and wearing a smock.
(c) A large piece of raw meat.
(d) A nude male.

6. How can a work of art lose its mystification?
(a) By making multiple uses of its reproductions.
(b) By changing the title for more modern viewers.
(c) By taking the work out of the context of the past.
(d) By creating too many written commentaries by critics.

7. What is a contradiction to the assumption that early European oil painters portrayed a level of humanism in their work?
(a) Their omission of male nudes in their paintings.
(b) Their inability to use humanistic expression in landscapes.
(c) Their use of non-human colors to paint their nudes.
(d) Their expression of women as either objects or abstractions.

8. What has happened to the meaning of the images on pages 40 and 41?
(a) The meaning of each image is enhanced from being surrounded by photographs of similar images.
(b) The meaning of the original image is combined with a pair of two other images.
(c) The meaning of the original image is lost as well as the meaning of the images as a whole.
(d) The meaning of the original image is lost when combined intentionally with text and other contrasting images.

9. What is surprising to see mixed in with the images on pages 40 and 41?
(a) Elephants in a circus.
(b) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
(c) A bottle of wine.
(d) Slices of ham.

10. After reproductions are made, an original work of art is unique only in its what?
(a) Interpretation.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Rarity.
(d) Composition.

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

12. What does the traditional depiction of Adam and Eve project as the perception of being naked?
(a) That being naked is natural.
(b) That being naked is only acceptable for females.
(c) That being naked is shameful.
(d) That being naked is only acceptable for males.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What image is obviously coupled with Ruben's painting on pages 42 and 43?

2. According to the authors, how is the focus of a man's power different than a female's?

3. In general, what does seeing do?

4. What is visual art originally made for?

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

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