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

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

3. When was oil painting first developed?
(a) During the Middle Ages.
(b) Early twentieth century.
(c) Late eighteenth century.
(d) Fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

4. What types of images are paired together on pages 126 and 127?
(a) Drawings and architectural diagrams.
(b) Female nude paintings and male nude photos.
(c) Advertisements and celebrity photos.
(d) Oil paintings and photographs.

5. What do navigational instruments generally symbolize in a traditional oil painting?
(a) The position of the patrons' social and political status.
(b) Trade routes to acquire the riches of other nations.
(c) Merchandise lost at sea.
(d) Scientific endeavors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is evident when comparing the two images "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes" and " Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill"?

2. From what time period are the images on pages 120 and 121?

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

4. Which painting is an example of how oil paintings make objects desirable to touch?

5. Until approximately what date does the period of traditional oil painting run through?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. In Chapter 6, compare the visual characteristics of the images "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes", and the oil painting by Bartolome Murillo titled "Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill".

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

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

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