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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. Which of the following is an example of how creating a reproduction can change the meaning of a painting?
(a) A photographer takes a picture of Da Vinci's the "Virgin of the Rocks" in the National Gallery.
(b) A publisher of an art history book decides to reproduce images to accompany the text.
(c) The face of one figure in a group can be isolated in reproduction to become a portrait.
(d) An art student attempts to make a reproduction of Da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks".

2. In Chapter 2, what is the same between pages 40 to 41 and pages 42 to 43?
(a) All of the pages are publicity for the female figure.
(b) All of the pages depict wealthy and powerful men.
(c) All of the pages demonstrate the difference between men and women.
(d) All of the pages are a statement on the historical struggle of artists.

3. According to the authors, what are women culturally and socially conditioned to do?
(a) Be politically educated.
(b) Critize the condition of other women.
(c) Be aware of their own image as others see it.
(d) Project the wants of others.

4. The author proposes that there is a gap between what two concepts?
(a) Words and text.
(b) Words and poetry.
(c) Words and sight.
(d) Words and thought.

5. Why is a woman composed of two parts of one female identity, according to Berger et al.?
(a) Because she makes it a habit to look in the mirror.
(b) Because she continually sees and is seen by herself.
(c) Because she needs to feel wanted by others.
(d) Because she creates an identity for each part of her life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement best describes what is eliminated when a work of art is reproduced?

2. Magritte's painting is an example of what type of artwork?

3. What do Berger et al. mean by the phrase "holy relic"?

4. What does the traditional depiction of Adam and Eve project as the perception of being naked?

5. What does Kenneth Clark (not the authors) say about the concepts of naked and nude?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is a work of art from the past mystifying to the modern viewer?

2. 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?

3. What happens to the meaning of a painting when many reproductions are made?

4. Describe how Berger et al. interpret the image of a nude women gazing in a mirror.

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

6. What is similar in all of the images in Chapter 2 on pages 36 and 37?

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

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

9. Describe how there is a gap between words and sight, as explained in Chapter 1.

10. In Chapter 2, pages 42 and 43, how do the women in the images appear to men in the images?

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