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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. Why is it a significant accomplishment for an artist to paint children at play?
(a) Because the artist must keep the children seated for many hours.
(b) Because the image can be captured better with a photograph.
(c) Because most of the image must be recreated from memory and imagination.
(d) Because patrons rarely allow paintings of their children.

2. What is Chapter 6 comprised of?
(a) Abstract mixed media.
(b) Publicity images.
(c) Black and white photography.
(d) Oil paintings and some photographs.

3. Which painting is an example of how oil paintings make objects desirable to touch?
(a) Van Gogh's "Cornfield with Birds Flying Out of It."
(b) Rembrandt's self-portriat with Saskia.
(c) Picasso's self-portrait.
(d) Holbein's "The Ambassadors."

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

5. What is most interesting about the two works from Courbet on pages 124 and 125?
(a) The works create a new meaning when presented together.
(b) The works show the difference between nude and naked.
(c) The works illustrate two distinct styles from the artist.
(d) The works demonstrate a clarity in the artist's way of seeing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Berger et al. describe Rembrandt's first self-portrait?

2. All of the following are included in the images featured on pages 70 to 71, except for which ones?

3. In what general style are most of the images in Chapter 4?

4. What covers the Knoll Ball Room?

5. What is different about an art collector compared to a collector of other objects?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 6, compare the visual characteristics of the images "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes", and the oil painting by Bartolome Murillo titled "Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill".

3. According to Berger et al., how do traditional oil paintings perpetuate the wealth and power of the ruling class?

4. What is the significance of the images on pages 120 and 121 that depict family and other social groupings of common, ordinary daily life?

5. 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?

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

7. Explain how the pairs of paintings and photographs in Chapter 6 on pages 126 and 127 complement each other.

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

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

10. According to the authors, how is a collector of art different than a collector of other things?

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