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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Frans Hals?
(a) An eighty-year-old destitute Dutch painter in 1664.
(b) A famous, modern, art historian.
(c) A young impressionist in 1890.
(d) An emerging artist in New York City in 1990.

2. What has happened to the meaning of the images on pages 40 and 41?
(a) The meaning of the original image is lost when combined intentionally with text and other contrasting images.
(b) The meaning of each image is enhanced from being surrounded by photographs of similar images.
(c) The meaning of the original image is combined with a pair of two other images.
(d) The meaning of the original image is lost as well as the meaning of the images as a whole.

3. Which is a traditional object used in covering the figures in nude paintings?
(a) Water.
(b) Fig leaves.
(c) Mirrors.
(d) Books or papers.

4. What does the author use "The Key of Dreams" as an example of?
(a) The gap between words and image.
(b) The use of bad titles.
(c) The use of poetry in image.
(d) The use of words with image.

5. When do artists begin to use the concept of singular perspective?
(a) In early Abstractionism.
(b) In the early Renaissance.
(c) In the early Impressionist movement.
(d) In the early Surrealist movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Berger et al., how is a woman's social presence different than a man's?

2. In general, what does seeing do?

3. What is typically the focus in a work of art displaying a nude?

4. Which statement best describes the Cubist style?

5. Who is one of the first artists to break the tradition of objectifying women nudes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how, according to the authors, a woman continually sees and is seen by herself as two parts of one female identity.

2. Explain how Cubism contradicts the single eye of perspective.

3. Describe the differences between the collection of images on pages 36 and 37, and the collection of images on pages 38 and 39.

4. Berger et al. explain that there is a certain style of European oil painting that does not put the nakedness of a women as the center display, but rather puts the relationship of the woman and artist on display. What is considered provocative about these images?

5. Explain how an image is a record of a sight.

6. How does the value of the original painting change after it has been reproduced many times?

7. Describe how Bronzino's painting of Cupid kissing the lips of Venus shows that nudity is created with a spectator in mind.

8. Describe how men and women are different social presences, according to Berger et al.

9. What do you think is the overall mood of the collection of images in Chapter 2 on pages 38 and 39?

10. According to Berger et al., how can the story of Adam and Eve explain the shamefulness associated with being naked?

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