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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which statement best describes what is eliminated when a work of art is reproduced?
(a) The viewer of the artwork.
(b) The compostition of the artwork.
(c) The presence of an authority on the artwork.
(d) The title of the artwork.

3. 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) The women on pages 36 and 37 are clothed and the women on pages 38 and 39 are not.
(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) Pages 36 and 37 are in black and white, and pages 38 and 39 are in color.
(d) The women on pages 36 and 37 are all wearing make-up and on pages 38 and 39 they are not.

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

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

6. What is visual art originally made for?
(a) A specific theme.
(b) A specific location.
(c) A specific religion.
(d) A specific politician.

7. Where is the figure in "Bathsheba" sitting?
(a) The woman is sitting to have her feet washed.
(b) She is sitting to write a letter.
(c) She is sitting at her bedside.
(d) She is sitting at the dinner table.

8. According to Berger et al., how must a woman observe herself in order to see herself in the eyes of a man?
(a) She must look at herself as though she is an object.
(b) She must appreciate her use to a man.
(c) She must give herself time to reflect on images which appeal to men.
(d) She must see herself in a mirror.

9. Who is one of the first artists to break the tradition of objectifying women nudes?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Manet.
(c) Rembrant.
(d) Da Vinci.

10. 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 both naked and nude can be forms or art.
(c) That naked is any undressed object.
(d) That nude is a form of art and naked is simply being without clothes.

11. 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 sketching a beautiful nude from his imagination.
(d) By holding competitions for the most beautiful naked woman and using the winner as a nude.

12. In pages 36 and 37, how is the female figure presented?
(a) All in designer clothing.
(b) Nude.
(c) In make-up advertisements.
(d) Fully clothed.

13. 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 sight.
(c) She sees herself as a composite of image and emotion.
(d) She sees herself as a physical reflection in a mirror.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement is NOT true about viewing an image made in the past?

2. Most of the images on pages 40 and 41 are of what content?

3. What are images a record of?

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

5. In general, what are words used to do?

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