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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the title of all the paintings on pages 70 and 71?
(a) Still life.
(b) God Bless the Queen.
(c) Pan.
(d) Nude woman.
2. In Chapter 6, what images are on pages 120 and 121?
(a) Botanical prints.
(b) Formal portaits.
(c) Landscapes.
(d) Family and other social groupings.
3. 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.
4. What is the approximate historical range of the images on pages 66 and 67?
(a) From the early 1200s to the mid-1500s.
(b) From the 18th to the 19th century.
(c) From the mid-1200s to the late-1800s.
(d) From the 20th century.
5. Which word best describes the position of artists as traditional oil painting develops?
(a) Opposition.
(b) Fortune.
(c) Struggle.
(d) Defense.
6. What could be the theme for all of the images included on pages 68 to 71?
(a) Love will always lead to sorrow.
(b) Death is a necessary part of life.
(c) Power is forever corrupt.
(d) Nudity does not always equal pleasure for the viewer,
7. 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 sights of the common person.
(c) It conveys the social position of the owner.
(d) It conveys the illusions of texture, luster, tangibility, and solidity.
8. What is the purpose of the paired images on pages 126 and 127?
(a) Each pair shows a different side of popular culture.
(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 demonstrates a different period in art history.
9. What is the metaphor that Berger et al. use to describe the European oil painting tradition?
(a) A window unto the world.
(b) The metamorphasis of a butterfly.
(c) A wall safe unto which the ways of seeing are deposited.
(d) The crutch of society.
10. Until approximately what date does the period of traditional oil painting run through?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1817.
(c) 1917.
(d) 2010.
11. All of the following are included in the images featured on pages 70 to 71, except for which ones?
(a) Political icons.
(b) Food and drink.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Dead animals.
12. What is similar about the two paintings by Courbet on pages 124 and 125?
(a) They are both feminine.
(b) They both depict voluptuous women.
(c) They both show family settings.
(d) They are very dark and bold in color.
13. How is Maddox Brown's painting different than the other images on pages 66 and 67?
(a) The painting could be considered humorous in comparison to the other images.
(b) The painting is entirely in black and white.
(c) The painting includes mythical beings that are not present in the other images.
(d) The painting depicts an unknown subject.
14. After the period of traditional oil paintings, what medium becomes the primary form of visual imagery?
(a) Film.
(b) Photography.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Murals.
15. What is the main difference in the effect on the viewer between the two Rembrandt self-portraits?
(a) The second portrait portrays the soul and individualistic style of the painter, a style that is completely avoided in the first self-portrait.
(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 first portrait is in color and the second portrait is in black and white.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was oil painting first developed?
2. What do paintings of children demonstrate about the patron who commissioned the work?
3. Who is considered a master of traditional European oil painting?
4. What is Chapter 6 comprised of?
5. What conventions influence traditional European oil painting as it develops?
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