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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the subject of Rembrandt's first self-portrait?
(a) Himself and his first wife, Saskia.
(b) Himself and a black bird.
(c) Himself as a court jester.
(d) Himself and his faithful dog.

10. 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 are both black and white reproductions.
(c) They both contain subjects that are moving.
(d) They both portray wealthy subjects.

11. Which phrase is a good description of how Demoiselles is portrayed?
(a) Demoiselle is strong and goddess-like.
(b) Demoiselles is intelligent and refined.
(c) Demoiselles is bold and sensual.
(d) Demoiselles is covered, hidden, protected and innocent.

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

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

14. How is Maddox Brown's painting different than the other images on pages 66 and 67?
(a) The painting includes mythical beings that are not present in the other images.
(b) The painting is entirely in black and white.
(c) The painting could be considered humorous in comparison to the other images.
(d) The painting depicts an unknown subject.

15. What is similar about all of the portraits on page 76?
(a) All the subjects are reclining in a chair.
(b) All the subjects are undressing.
(c) All the subjects are holding a bible.
(d) All the subjects stand alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What primarily constitutes a landscape painting as traditional oil techniques are developed?

2. All of the following are included in the images featured on pages 70 to 71, except for which ones?

3. What is the purpose of the paired images on pages 126 and 127?

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

5. How could one best describe Hans Baldung Grien's "Three ages of Women"?

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