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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the metaphor that Berger et al. use to describe the European oil painting tradition?
(a) A wall safe unto which the ways of seeing are deposited.
(b) The metamorphasis of a butterfly.
(c) The crutch of society.
(d) A window unto the world.

2. From what ages does Rembrandt paint two self-portraits?
(a) Ages eighty to eighty-five.
(b) Ages twenty-eight to fifty-eight.
(c) Ages eighteen to twenty-five.
(d) Ages forty to fifty.

3. What could be said about the contents of Chapter 4?
(a) The contents are not organized in any manner.
(b) The contents include two paintings from each period of art.
(c) The images represent a general history of art.
(d) The images are ordered by date.

4. What is evident when comparing the two images "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes" and " Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill"?
(a) The oil painting contains less realism than the photograph.
(b) The photograph portrays the subject in more clarity.
(c) The photograph captures motion better than the oil painting.
(d) The oil painting has more detail than the photograph.

5. Which subject is accorded with the highest prestige?
(a) Food.
(b) Animals.
(c) Mythological creatures.
(d) Landscapes.

6. What is the appearance of the figures in pages 72 to 73?
(a) Idealistic nudes.
(b) Ornamentally dressed females.
(c) Prominent figures dressed according to their time period.
(d) Stern portraits.

7. What character often appears in the images on pages 72 and 73?
(a) The king's chamberlain.
(b) Pan.
(c) The Madonna.
(d) The Pope.

8. How is a two-dimensional oil painting different from other forms of art?
(a) It conveys the misplacement of women in society.
(b) It conveys the social position of the owner.
(c) It conveys the illusions of texture, luster, tangibility, and solidity.
(d) It conveys the sights of the common person.

9. According to Berger et al., why does ordinary life have more meaning when recorded on a canvas?
(a) Because it took weeks or months to recreate the image from the artist's point of view,
(b) Because artists appreciate these works more than works with other subjects.
(c) Because it portrays everyday life as an interesting event.
(d) Because the elite upper classes are willing to pay large sums of money for a painting.

10. What are most traditional oil paintings commissioned to demonstrate to the viewer?
(a) The political turmoil that the patron has survived.
(b) The social conditions of the time period.
(c) The power and wealth of the patron.
(d) The style of monarchy and church rule of the time period.

11. What is the most true about Chapter 4?
(a) All of the images are oil paintings.
(b) All of the subjects are nude or undressing.
(c) There are no titles to the works.
(d) There are no words used to describe the images.

12. After the period of traditional oil paintings, what medium becomes the primary form of visual imagery?
(a) Film.
(b) Sculpture.
(c) Photography.
(d) Murals.

13. What is the extraordinary significance of works such as" A Family Group" by Nouts?
(a) An artist spends days and weeks of time laboriously putting oil on canvas to record the event.
(b) The paint itself is a new technology that will last centuries.
(c) A patron of such a work is not typically a collector of art.
(d) The subjects are all very wealthy and popular at the time.

14. What is the purpose of the paired images on pages 126 and 127?
(a) Each pair demonstrates a different period in art history.
(b) Each pair demonstrates ways to pose the human body as a subject.
(c) Each pair plays off each other to enhance their subject matter and style.
(d) Each pair shows a different side of popular culture.

15. What is the approximate historical range of the images on pages 66 and 67?
(a) From the 20th century.
(b) From the mid-1200s to the late-1800s.
(c) From the early 1200s to the mid-1500s.
(d) From the 18th to the 19th century.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following would be a good symbol for the collection of images on pages 68 to 71?

2. Which phrase is a good description of how Demoiselles is portrayed?

3. What is different about an art collector compared to a collector of other objects?

4. What is genre as a subject?

5. Who is considered a master of traditional European oil painting?

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