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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. 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 illusions of texture, luster, tangibility, and solidity.
(c) It conveys the sights of the common person.
(d) It conveys the social position of the owner.

2. What is the subject of Rembrandt's first self-portrait?
(a) Himself as a court jester.
(b) Himself and his faithful dog.
(c) Himself and a black bird.
(d) Himself and his first wife, Saskia.

3. What is the approximate historical range of the images on pages 66 and 67?
(a) From the 20th century.
(b) From the mid-1200s to the late-1800s.
(c) From the early 1200s to the mid-1500s.
(d) From the 18th to the 19th century.

4. What words best describe the gaze of the subjects on their own material goods in a traditional oil painting?
(a) Satisfied, generous, serious.
(b) Confident, formal, arrogant.
(c) Formal, wary, content.
(d) Generous, faithful, pleasant.

5. All of the following are included in the images featured on pages 70 to 71, except for which ones?
(a) Food and drink.
(b) Political icons.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Dead animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Until approximately what date does the period of traditional oil painting run through?

2. What does Nattier's "Mademoiselle de Clermonte" depict?

3. Which word best describes the series of portraits displayed in the Knoll Ball Room?

4. Which statement could easily be an interpretation of Van Gogh's "a cornfield with birds flying out of it"?

5. What is genre as a subject?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Couture's eighteenth century painting "A Roman Feast", and explain how it plays into the other images on the facing page.

2. Describe the images of death in Chapter 4 on pages 68 and 69, and name some of the specific paintings.

3. Describe the difference in the artist portrayal of a portrait versus a self-portrait.

4. How is Ford Madox Brown's nineteenth century painting titled "The Pretty Baa Lambs" slightly humorous against the other images on pages 66 and 67?

5. Explain how an oil painting depicts subjects differently than other art forms, as discussed by the authors.

6. How does Courbet's two paintings, reproduced in Chapter 6 on facing pages 124 and 125, titled "Girl in White Stockings" and "Demoiselles au bord de la Seine" illustrate two distinct styles of his work?

7. How is the meaning of the images in Chapter 6 on pages 120 and 121, that depict daily life, of any significance?

8. Explain how Rembrandt's two self-portraits, the first at age twenty-eight and the second at age fifty-eight, evolve to include content that is not conventionally found in traditional oil paintings of his time.

9. In Chapter 4, explain what interconnections can be made between the images of death on pages 68 and 69, and the images of food, wine, and the hunt on pages 70 and 71.

10. Describe how the wealthy influence the ways of seeing through oil paintings, as explained by Berger et al.

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