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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does the ruling class of a period support or promote their own way of seeing?
(a) By only permitting specifc depictions of holy figures.
(b) By bribing artists into depicting themselves as more wealthy or powerful than they really are.
(c) By creating great halls of family portraits.
(d) By commissioning oil paintings that depict sights of what they possess.

2. According to Berger et al., what does traditional oil painting effectively do?
(a) Reduces all things to a tradable material or measurable commodity.
(b) Allows for the reformation of the church.
(c) Permits artists to express portraits in a humanistic style.
(d) Promotes the lower classes of society.

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

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

5. What is significant about the images presented on pages 120 and 121?
(a) They are indicative of the times and how people lived then.
(b) They create a powerful commentary about social media.
(c) They contain famous subjects.
(d) They demonstrate the difference between nude and clothed figures.

6. What is different about an art collector compared to a collector of other objects?
(a) Art collectors are the most wealthy of collectors.
(b) An art collector typically has more social standing than collectors of other objects.
(c) An art collector is surrounded by pictures that show him the sights of what he may posses.
(d) Art collectors must actively take part in their collections.

7. What is visually similar about the paintings "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes" and " Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill"?
(a) They both portray elderly subjects.
(b) They both portray wealthy subjects.
(c) They both contain subjects that are moving.
(d) They are both black and white reproductions.

8. How is Rembrandt portrayed in his second self-portrait?
(a) As a great king.
(b) As an old man.
(c) As a woman.
(d) As a young hunter.

9. Which of the following would be a good symbol for the collection of images on pages 68 to 71?
(a) A nude woman with a rose.
(b) A corpse with a glass of wine.
(c) A president with a burning flag.
(d) Two doves with an olive branch.

10. All of the following are titles of works that begin Chapter 6, except for which one?
(a) "Pity."
(b) "Unclad woman."
(c) "Europe Supported by Africa and America."
(d) "Mildew Blighting Ears of Corn."

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

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

13. 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 has more detail than the photograph.
(b) The photograph captures motion better than the oil painting.
(c) The photograph portrays the subject in more clarity.
(d) The oil painting contains less realism than the photograph.

14. Which word best describes the position of artists as traditional oil painting develops?
(a) Fortune.
(b) Opposition.
(c) Defense.
(d) Struggle.

15. What words best describe the gaze of the subjects on their own material goods in a traditional oil painting?
(a) Generous, faithful, pleasant.
(b) Formal, wary, content.
(c) Confident, formal, arrogant.
(d) Satisfied, generous, serious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Until approximately what date does the period of traditional oil painting run through?

2. What conventions influence traditional European oil painting as it develops?

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

4. What do paintings of children demonstrate about the patron who commissioned the work?

5. What is similar about the two paintings by Courbet on pages 124 and 125?

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