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

2. What is evident when comparing the two images "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes" and " Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill"?
(a) The photograph portrays the subject in more clarity.
(b) The photograph captures motion better than the oil painting.
(c) The oil painting has more detail than the photograph.
(d) The oil painting contains less realism than the photograph.

3. What is the main difference in the effect on the viewer between the two Rembrandt self-portraits?
(a) The second portrait follows all of the conventions of the time period and displays the wealth of the painter.
(b) The second portrait portrays the soul and individualistic style of the painter, a style that is completely avoided in the first self-portrait.
(c) The first portrait is in color and the second portrait is in black and white.
(d) The first portrait displays the romance and intimacy between a married couple, while the second portrait displays the empty shell of a man.

4. What makes the self-portraits on pages 80 and 81 interesting to the viewer?
(a) The painter includes more fine details in the self-portraits than a typical commissioned portrait.
(b) The artist gives the viewer more than the single eye of perspective.
(c) The subject is more intriguing in a typical portrait.
(d) The perspective is more intimate and human than a typical portrait.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following are titles of works that begin Chapter 6, except for which one?

2. What could be the theme for all of the images included on pages 68 to 71?

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

4. What is the purpose of the paired images on pages 126 and 127?

5. What is genre as a subject?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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