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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 the approximate historical range of the images on pages 66 and 67?
(a) From the mid-1200s to the late-1800s.
(b) From the 18th to the 19th century.
(c) From the 20th century.
(d) From the early 1200s to the mid-1500s.

2. Until approximately what date does the period of traditional oil painting run through?
(a) 2010.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1817.

3. How could one best describe Hans Baldung Grien's "Three ages of Women"?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Sensual.
(d) Lovely.

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

5. What is the main difference in the effect on the viewer between the two Rembrandt self-portraits?
(a) The second portrait portrays the soul and individualistic style of the painter, a style that is completely avoided in the first self-portrait.
(b) The second portrait follows all of the conventions of the time period and displays the wealth of the painter.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what ages does Rembrandt paint two self-portraits?

3. In Chapter 4, what are the images depictions of on pages 66 and 67?

4. Which of the following would be a good symbol for the collection of images on pages 68 to 71?

5. What is the subject of Rembrandt's first self-portrait?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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.

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

8. Describe the painting "Europe supported by Africa and America" by William Blake, and propose the message the artist is sending through the work.

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

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

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