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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 is similar about all of the portraits on page 76?
(a) All the subjects stand alone.
(b) All the subjects are holding a bible.
(c) All the subjects are reclining in a chair.
(d) All the subjects are undressing.

2. Which statement best describes photography in 1883?
(a) It is very good at capturing subjects in motion.
(b) It is a high-tech visual format.
(c) It increases the number of images an artist can capture.
(d) It is a primitive visual technology still in the developing stages.

3. What is significant about the images presented on pages 120 and 121?
(a) They are indicative of the times and how people lived then.
(b) They contain famous subjects.
(c) They demonstrate the difference between nude and clothed figures.
(d) They create a powerful commentary about social media.

4. What tends to be the central figure(s) in the images presented in Chapter 4 on pages 66 and 67?
(a) Popes and Cardinals.
(b) Political leaders, scientists, and authors.
(c) Madonna and child.
(d) Nudes in gardens.

5. What is genre as a subject?
(a) Common life subjects.
(b) Exotic animals.
(c) Exotic botanicals.
(d) New world subjects.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Berger et al., what does traditional oil painting effectively do?

2. What is visually similar about the paintings "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes" and " Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill"?

3. What do paintings of children demonstrate about the patron who commissioned the work?

4. After the period of traditional oil paintings, what medium becomes the primary form of visual imagery?

5. What character often appears in the images on pages 72 and 73?

Short Essay Questions

1. Chapter 5 begins with an oil painting showing several items contemporaneous with the Dutch school in 1665. Describe the painting and the objects it depicts.

2. What objects are common subjects for traditional oil paintings, and how are they conventionally depicted?

3. In Chapter 6, explain how facing pages 116 and 117 return to Blake's theme of Africa and America supporting Europe.

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. Describe how Holbein's work "The Ambassadors" is typical of traditional oil paintings and the manner of presenting the subjects, as explained by the authors.

10. What is demonstrated about the visual arts in comparing the photograph of "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes", and the oil painting "Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill"?

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