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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. In Chapter 6, what images are on pages 120 and 121?
(a) Botanical prints.
(b) Landscapes.
(c) Formal portaits.
(d) Family and other social groupings.

2. 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) Holbein's "The Ambassadors."
(c) Picasso's self-portrait.
(d) Rembrandt's self-portriat with Saskia.

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

4. What covers the Knoll Ball Room?
(a) Oil paintings.
(b) Nude photos.
(c) Heavy tapestries.
(d) Busts of prominent persons.

5. All of the following are titles of works that begin Chapter 6, except for which one?
(a) "Mildew Blighting Ears of Corn."
(b) "Pity."
(c) "Europe Supported by Africa and America."
(d) "Unclad woman."

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 6 begins with images from which artist?

2. Why is it a significant accomplishment for an artist to paint children at play?

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

4. What is genre as a subject?

5. What could be said about the contents of Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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.

10. 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"?

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