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

2. What metaphor do Berger et al. use to explain the single eye of perspective?
(a) A lighthouse beacon.
(b) A ceramic relic from ancient Greece.
(c) A telescope.
(d) A cubist painting.

3. What is similar about the images on pages 42 and 43?
(a) They mostly involve still lifes, not human subjects.
(b) They are mostly paintings without titles.
(c) They are entirely black and white.
(d) They are mostly publicity images aimed at a female viewer.

4. What word would best describe the images on pages 40 and 41?
(a) Provocative.
(b) Formal.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Emotional.

5. Which of the following statements is true, according to Berger?
(a) Nakedness should be acceptable to society.
(b) Nakedness is without disguise, but nudity is a form of dress.
(c) Nudity is as shameful as nakedness.
(d) Nude and naked should really be one word since they have the same meaning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could be stated as the theme of pages 40 and 41?

2. What does the author use "The Key of Dreams" as an example of?

3. Where is the figure in "Bathsheba" sitting?

4. Why can every viewer see a painting in a different way?

5. How does the painter, Durer, create what he believes is the perfect nude?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the combination of images present in Chapter 2 on pages 40 and 41.

2. What effect does the inclusion of text have on the images in pages 40 and 41?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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