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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the visual irony between the images on pages 68 and 69, and the images on pages 70 and 71?
(a) The play between death and life sustaining sustenance.
(b) The similarity between the religious and the political.
(c) The connection between naked and nude.
(d) The tragedy of love and death.

5. Which word best describes the images on pages 72 and 73?
(a) Devout.
(b) Reality.
(c) Fantasy.
(d) Beastly.

6. Until approximately what date does the period of traditional oil painting run through?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1900.
(c) 2010.
(d) 1817.

7. What tends to be the central figure(s) in the images presented in Chapter 4 on pages 66 and 67?
(a) Nudes in gardens.
(b) Political leaders, scientists, and authors.
(c) Popes and Cardinals.
(d) Madonna and child.

8. What is Chapter 6 comprised of?
(a) Black and white photography.
(b) Publicity images.
(c) Abstract mixed media.
(d) Oil paintings and some photographs.

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

10. What covers the Knoll Ball Room?
(a) Busts of prominent persons.
(b) Nude photos.
(c) Heavy tapestries.
(d) Oil paintings.

11. Which word best describes the series of portraits displayed in the Knoll Ball Room?
(a) Melancholy.
(b) Sensual.
(c) Formal.
(d) Weary.

12. What is extraordinary about painting subjects such as children?
(a) Patrons do not typically comission paintings of children.
(b) The artist must capture their likeness with little time viewing the subject.
(c) Artists must entertain the subject while completing the painting.
(d) Children are not a symbol of wealth or well-being, and so are rarely commissioned.

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

14. In Chapter 6, what images are on pages 120 and 121?
(a) Family and other social groupings.
(b) Botanical prints.
(c) Formal portaits.
(d) Landscapes.

15. All of the following are included in the images featured on pages 70 to 71, except for which ones?
(a) Food and drink.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Political icons.
(d) Dead animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main difference in the effect on the viewer between the two Rembrandt self-portraits?

2. Which word best describes the position of artists as traditional oil painting develops?

3. According to Berger et al., what does traditional oil painting effectively do?

4. What is the title of all the paintings on pages 70 and 71?

5. Which work is by Courbet, as shown in Chapter 6 on pages 124 and 125?

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