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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which statement could easily be an interpretation of Van Gogh's "a cornfield with birds flying out of it"?
(a) The obsession of fortune and fame of an artist in his day.
(b) The balance between man and nature.
(c) The ultimate battle between rich and poor.
(d) The final release from the struggle of his soul before suicide.

3. Which statement best describes photography in 1883?
(a) It is very good at capturing subjects in motion.
(b) It is a primitive visual technology still in the developing stages.
(c) It is a high-tech visual format.
(d) It increases the number of images an artist can capture.

4. What makes the self-portraits on pages 80 and 81 interesting to the viewer?
(a) The perspective is more intimate and human than a typical portrait.
(b) The artist gives the viewer more than the single eye of perspective.
(c) The subject is more intriguing in a typical portrait.
(d) The painter includes more fine details in the self-portraits than a typical commissioned portrait.

5. Which painting is an example of how oil paintings make objects desirable to touch?
(a) Holbein's "The Ambassadors."
(b) Van Gogh's "Cornfield with Birds Flying Out of It."
(c) Rembrandt's self-portriat with Saskia.
(d) Picasso's self-portrait.

6. What is genre as a subject?
(a) Exotic animals.
(b) New world subjects.
(c) Common life subjects.
(d) Exotic botanicals.

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

8. What do navigational instruments generally symbolize in a traditional oil painting?
(a) Trade routes to acquire the riches of other nations.
(b) Scientific endeavors.
(c) The position of the patrons' social and political status.
(d) Merchandise lost at sea.

9. In what general style are most of the images in Chapter 4?
(a) Abstract.
(b) Realism.
(c) Op art.
(d) Cubism.

10. What is the main difference in the effect on the viewer between the two Rembrandt self-portraits?
(a) The first portrait is in color and the second portrait is in black and white.
(b) The second portrait follows all of the conventions of the time period and displays the wealth of the painter.
(c) The first portrait displays the romance and intimacy between a married couple, while the second portrait displays the empty shell of a man.
(d) The second portrait portrays the soul and individualistic style of the painter, a style that is completely avoided in the first self-portrait.

11. From what time period are the images on pages 120 and 121?
(a) Late twentieth century.
(b) Early twenty-first century.
(c) The sixteenth century.
(d) The nineteenth century.

12. When was oil painting first developed?
(a) Late eighteenth century.
(b) Fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
(c) During the Middle Ages.
(d) Early twentieth century.

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

14. What primarily constitutes a landscape painting as traditional oil techniques are developed?
(a) Abstract natural figures.
(b) Solid tangible space.
(c) Intangible sky and distance.
(d) Romantic man versus nature scenes.

15. What does Couture's painting "A Roman Feast" display?
(a) A full glass of wine and a festive party.
(b) A voluptuous reclining woman.
(c) The end of a war with a field of bodies.
(d) A full table of meat and bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words best describe the gaze of the subjects on their own material goods in a traditional oil painting?

2. What is most interesting about the two works from Courbet on pages 124 and 125?

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

4. Which of the following is a common theme in the images on pages 116 and 117?

5. After the period of traditional oil paintings, what medium becomes the primary form of visual imagery?

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