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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. Which of the following is the title of a painting on pages 72 and 73?
(a) "Unearthly."
(b) "Venus and Mars."
(c) "President Washington Age 40."
(d) "The Princess of Russia."

2. Which subject is accorded with the highest prestige?
(a) Animals.
(b) Food.
(c) Mythological creatures.
(d) Landscapes.

3. What could be said about the contents of Chapter 4?
(a) The contents are not organized in any manner.
(b) The images are ordered by date.
(c) The contents include two paintings from each period of art.
(d) The images represent a general history of art.

4. In Chapter 4, what are the images depictions of on pages 66 and 67?
(a) Religious icons.
(b) Former Presidents.
(c) Celebrity photos.
(d) Botanical prints.

5. What is the metaphor that Berger et al. use to describe the European oil painting tradition?
(a) The crutch of society.
(b) The metamorphasis of a butterfly.
(c) A wall safe unto which the ways of seeing are deposited.
(d) A window unto the world.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 6, which painting best shows the humanity of its subject?

3. How is a two-dimensional oil painting different from other forms of art?

4. What words best describe the gaze of the subjects on their own material goods in a traditional oil painting?

5. What is extraordinary about painting subjects such as children?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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"?

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

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

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