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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. In Chapter 2, pages 36 and 37, how are the women in the images viewed by men in the same images?
(a) The women are generally ignored.
(b) The women are awkwardly posing for the men.
(c) The women are the focus of their attention.
(d) The women are serving the men.

2. What invention eventually disproves the idea of center, and single eye?
(a) The computer.
(b) The clock.
(c) The microscope.
(d) The camera.

3. What does the traditional depiction of Adam and Eve project as the perception of being naked?
(a) That being naked is shameful.
(b) That being naked is natural.
(c) That being naked is only acceptable for females.
(d) That being naked is only acceptable for males.

4. According to the authors, how is the focus of a man's power different than a female's?
(a) It is always focused towards women.
(b) It is always focused externally.
(c) It is always focused on money.
(d) It is always focused on appearances.

5. What is visual art originally made for?
(a) A specific theme.
(b) A specific politician.
(c) A specific location.
(d) A specific religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can a work of art lose its mystification?

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

3. The author proposes that there is a gap between what two concepts?

4. After reproductions are made, an original work of art is unique only in its what?

5. Most of the images on pages 40 and 41 are of what content?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how the portrayal of women by European oil painters is a contradiction to their own work theory, as explained by the authors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the metaphor of the lighthouse and the single eye of perspective.

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

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