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

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

3. Who is considered a master of traditional European oil painting?
(a) Van Gogh.
(b) Gauguin.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Rembrandt.

4. What conventions influence traditional European oil painting as it develops?
(a) The intolerance of nude figures.
(b) The obsession with property and power.
(c) The push for experimental theater and arts in general.
(d) The strive to create more social good.

5. What could easily be stated as the theme of the paintings on pages 68 and 69?
(a) War.
(b) Death.
(c) Love.
(d) Melancholy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which phrase is a good description of how Demoiselles is portrayed?

2. What is the extraordinary significance of works such as" A Family Group" by Nouts?

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

4. What tends to be the central figure(s) in the images presented in Chapter 4 on pages 66 and 67?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is in the Knoll Ball Room? Describe what it looks like.

2. How are pages 72 and 73, which contain images of mythological characters and fanciful human figures, different than the previous images that are displayed in Chapter 4?

3. 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"?

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. Describe the mood of the collection of religious iconic images presented in Chapter 4 on pages 66 and 67.

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