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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. From what ages does Rembrandt paint two self-portraits?
(a) Ages twenty-eight to fifty-eight.
(b) Ages eighty to eighty-five.
(c) Ages eighteen to twenty-five.
(d) Ages forty to fifty.

2. According to Berger et al., what does traditional oil painting effectively do?
(a) Promotes the lower classes of society.
(b) Permits artists to express portraits in a humanistic style.
(c) Reduces all things to a tradable material or measurable commodity.
(d) Allows for the reformation of the church.

3. What could easily be stated as the theme of the paintings on pages 68 and 69?
(a) Death.
(b) War.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Love.

4. Why is it a significant accomplishment for an artist to paint children at play?
(a) Because patrons rarely allow paintings of their children.
(b) Because the artist must keep the children seated for many hours.
(c) Because the image can be captured better with a photograph.
(d) Because most of the image must be recreated from memory and imagination.

5. According to Berger et al., why does ordinary life have more meaning when recorded on a canvas?
(a) Because the elite upper classes are willing to pay large sums of money for a painting.
(b) Because it portrays everyday life as an interesting event.
(c) Because it took weeks or months to recreate the image from the artist's point of view,
(d) Because artists appreciate these works more than works with other subjects.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which words best describe the setting of "Demoiselles au bord de la Seine"?

2. What is the extraordinary significance of works such as" A Family Group" by Nouts?

3. What is different about an art collector compared to a collector of other objects?

4. What types of images are paired together on pages 126 and 127?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the difference in the artist portrayal of a portrait versus a self-portrait.

9. 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".

10. 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.

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